Clarkson, the Baronet’s grand-daughter and a pile of poo - Telegraph Blogs

What is it about privately educated, toffy rich kids and the modern green movement? Obviously there’s none quite so grand as Old Etonian the Hon Sir Jonathon Porritt (both a baronet and the son of a Lord), but billionaire’s son (and Old Etonian, natch) Zac Goldsmith is hardly what you’d call a smelly prole; nor is eco-columnist Charles Clover (a Wet - ie an old boy of Tamsy Wamsy’s alma mater Westminster), nor is George Monbiot (who went to Palladian finishing school for the nice but dim Stowe); nor of course is desperately WASP-establishment Climate Fear Promoter Al Gore. Then of course there’s Prince Charles, who, though something of a Hanoverian arriviste still knows enough not to eat the peas off his fish knife or drop too many aitches when he goes to dinner with his upmarket chum Sir Jonathon.
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There is nothing clever or original or indeed counter-cultural about the modern green movement. They are protesters pushing against an open door. Any fool can go to Jeremy Clarkson’s house dressed in frills and chant drivel.

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'Faux-bama' gets the climate message across for Greenpeace : Asia World

Bangkok - "President Obama" vowed Friday in Bangkok to end the climate crisis by committing the US to emissions reductions at the upcoming Copenhagen Climate Summit in December. Not!In a publicity stunt outside the US Embassy in Bangkok, Barack Obama lookalike Ilham Anas, 34, from Indonesia, said all the things Greenpeace wishes the real President Obama would say.

"I will attend the Copenhagen Climate Summit," said the famed "Faux-bama." "I will ensure an ambitious, fair and binding global climate treaty. I will make funds available for climate mitigation and adaptation, starting with funds to protect the remaining forests."

Christian Aid campaigners sing climate change message to Miliband

An impromptu choir made up of Christian Aid climate justice campaigners sang a ‘Coal Kills’ message to Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband outside his offices this week.

Green campaigners warned about public apathy

Global warming is now one of the issues at the top of the agenda for the media and politicians, but a study by the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr) found that the general public do not feel the same way.