Pachauri’s Pal – the Worldwatch Institute
If scaremongering were an Olympic sport, Lester Brown would be a multi-gold-medalist. As founder of the Worldwatch Institute, he has released annual State of the World reports since 1983. Translated...
View ArticleThe State of the IPCC’s Leadership
I’ve been blogging about the fact that Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), habitually links the good name of that organization to activist...
View ArticleHansen, Suzuki & Greenpeace
Last week I discussed the Worldwatch Institute’s admiration for James Hansen’s alleged courage. It seems to me that courage is displayed by people who swim against the tide, who struggle to communicate...
View ArticleDavid Suzuki is a Drama Queen
When David Suzuki, Canada’s most prominent environmental activist, looks out on the world he sees nothing but crises. We have a name for people who regard everything as a crisis – we call them drama...
View ArticleThe Pipeline, the Jobs, & the Media
Two days ago US President Obama rejected a $7 billion construction project. The TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline was intended to transfer oil from Alberta, Canada all the way through the US down to the...
View ArticleThe UN’s Environmental ‘Holocausts’
Since the 1970s UN officials have tried to frighten us. Repeatedly, their predictions have failed. Repeatedly, their time frames have been preposterously inaccurate. Click the green headings to see the...
View ArticleRecent Press Releases
Press releases e-mailed to this blog tell a strange tale. . I don’t sign up to receive press releases, corporate newsletters, or activist group updates – but torrents of them land in my inbox anyway....
View ArticleHave We Run Out of Time Yet?
It isn’t your imagination. You’ve been hearing that the world is “running out of time” for years. from the Environmental Defense Fund’s website (click) “We are running out of time. We know that if we...
View ArticleDistressed Planet, 1990 – 2013
Back in 1990, the head of the UN said our planet was ailing. Fast forward a quarter of a century, and a Worldwatch Institute press release issued today continues the ‘planet in distress’ meme. . United...
View ArticleIPCC Called a ‘Global Thinker of 2013′
The editors of Foreign Policy magazine inhabit a fairy tale world of planet-saving superheroes and wicked climate deniers.
View ArticlePachauri’s Pal – the Worldwatch Institute
Before the IPCC was even founded, the Worldwatch Institute had already declared that global warming was caused by fossil fuels. Surely that makes the IPCC chairman's decision to fraternize with this...
View ArticleThe State of the IPCC’s Leadership
Rajendra Pachauri, as chairman of what is supposed to be a respectable science body, has - with deliberation and forethought - publicly linked that body to left-wing political analysis and activism.
View ArticleHansen, Suzuki & Greenpeace
Regarding James Hansen's (tax-payer funded) salary, David Suzuki's despair, and Ross Gelbspan's professional activism.
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