Category Archives: Climate

Pope-gate** has started to get the feel of the Eurovision song contest. We’ve already had a series of monotonous contributions and now there’s some dreadful singer dressed in an appalling costume singing a song that no doubt was humorous in … Continue reading →

Pope-gate** the “heinous act” of leaking a daft sorry draft copy of the Pope’s proclamation may have been an insider job according to “Newser“. “[it] may have been designed to steal some thunder from Thursday’s official launch, Vatican observers say—and … Continue reading →

The first serious comment has started to arrive – so serious that I can’t actually discern the personal views of some of the journalist on climate (how refreshing!!). As they seem to come from a Reuters source, it’s likely to … Continue reading →

Vatican City — There’s something of a whodunit going on in the Vatican to discover who leaked Pope Francis’ environment encyclical to an Italian newsweekly, deflating the release of the most anticipated and feared papal document in recent times. The … Continue reading →

As I regularly check news stories on global warming I have a fair idea of the press interest and yes, there have been a few idiotic “POPE BLASTS CLIMATE DENIERS” articles – but generally the response has been pretty mute … Continue reading →

For some 2000 years the Christian Church has been condemning the “pagans”, but now in the pope’s proclaimation he has embraced paganism and talks of “brother sun, sister moon, brother to the river and to mother Earth”. Has he joined … Continue reading →

When I heard the pope was going to “excommunicate” us sceptics at first I laughed, then realising that rearranging the date the Pope did the same to Luther (1520) we get this years date (2015), I contemplated reproducing Luther’s 95 … Continue reading →

Anyone with even an ounce of intelligence knows that fossil fuel companies welcome higher energy prices. Anyone who’s ever worked in the wind business knows that all the big oil companies were the first with their snouts in the trough … Continue reading →

After 18 years without warming, when not a single one of the academic’s predictions from rising temperatures, to accelerated sea level rise to global sea ice loss has come true. When rising CO2 levels are boosting harvests worldwide and stopping … Continue reading →