Tag Archives: Climate Change

Hmmm

Pope Francis, unsurprisingly given the name he has chosen, devoted quite a bit of time to the environment in his inaugural homily. We shall have to see whether the conclusions drawn by this reporter (for Religion News) reflect his own … Continue reading

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The Eternal Appeal of the Apocalyptic

Posted earlier on the Corner: It helps sell religions, movies, political agendas: Is there nothing that the prospect of apocalypse cannot do? Via AP: Abel Ferrara made his new film “4:44 Last Day on Earth” to serve as a wake-up … Continue reading

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If Only It Were About The Science

Cross-posted over at the Corner Britain‘s winter snows generate an interesting reaction from Spiked‘s Brendan O’Neill. Here’s an extract: …I’m not one of those people who believes snowfall necessarily disproves every claim made by warming-obsessed climatologists. Rather the snow crisis … Continue reading

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Apocalypse Postponed

The reason that stories of apocalypse run through so many religions is partly due, I suspect, to the persistent and widespread belief that this wicked old planet needs a sharp sheep-and-goats moment and, also, to the fact that the end of the world is … Continue reading

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No More New Moore

Here’s how a contributor to the Skeptic’s Dictionary defines confirmation bias: Confirmation bias refers to a type of selective thinking whereby one tends to notice and to look for what confirms one’s beliefs, and to ignore, not look for, or … Continue reading

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The Church of Climate Change (Again)

Here’s the Sunday Telegraph’s Christopher Booker: As the roof continues to fall in on them, in an endless succession of scandals, the beleaguered defenders of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have at last managed to mount a riposte … Continue reading

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The Church of Climate Change (More or Less Literally)

Writing over at the Sunday Telegraph, Christopher Booker examines the way that the British government has been spending taxpayer money on ‘climate change-related projects’. Make of his piece what you will. I will admit that this made me laugh: Why in 2002 should UK taxpayers … Continue reading

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The Church of Climate Change: Some Movement in The Pews

This press report is interesting, not only for what it contains  (some tricky questions about Chinese climate data on urban ‘heat islands’ ), but for where it appears – in the Guardian, a center of AGW orthodoxy. The Guardian‘s writer concludes … Continue reading

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The Church of Climate Change: Some Embarrassments

It’s important to remember that there is a decent scientific basis to the AGW hypothesis, but then there are moments like this (from The Sunday Telegraph): The United Nations’ expert panel on climate change based claims about ice disappearing from … Continue reading

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The Church of Climate Change: Whitewashed Sepulchure Watch

One of the features of a good number of religions is their tendency to urge asceticism /simplicity/don’t bother with all those material things on their followers. Another no less striking feature of those same religions is the way that such hair … Continue reading

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