A choice of catastrophes « The Landed Underclass

Once again: just how stupid do they think we are? Damn it, either ‘climate change’ makes the country wetter, or it makes it drier; if in fact either could happen, and nobody knows whether it will rain or not, then I would suggest that normal English conditions obtain and that in fact the climate has not changed at all.

Not PC: Gluckman versus science [update 2]

Professor Peter Gluckman, a world-ranked paediatrics researcher, has hit out at scientists in another field, calling them the equivalent of AIDS-deniers.

Bonn Climate Talks End Fruitlessly

Global climate ministers left the latest round of climate talks with a feeling that momentum is fading for a positive outcome at the December talks in Copenhagen.
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More than 2,000 global climate representatives were on hand for the Bonn talks.

Scoop: Air Con author preparing defamation papers

The author of an international bestseller on climate change is preparing to sue the New Zealand Herald and one of its journalists for defamation.

Ian Wishart, whose book Air Con has been a #1 bestseller in New Zealand and on Amazon.com in the United States, says Herald columnist Chris Barton has gone a bridge too far by defaming him without first reading the book.

“Barton has accused me of being dishonest, and or stupid, on the issue of climate change,” Wishart said today.