Climate Criminals to the Naughty Step — Climate Resistance: Challenging Climate Orthodoxy

One of the many problems with orthodoxies that exist only because nobody can come up with anything better is that they are just a bit of a laugh for everyone concerned. They are not really meant to be taken too seriously or anything. These lifestyle quizzes/comedy confessions are meant to make the participants feel a little bit guilty, but not too guilty. Miliband likes to see a bit of an environmental protest by people dressed up as Suffragettes, just so long as it is only a bit of one. No one really believes this stuff. Apart from Lieutenant Colonel Dick Strawbridge maybe. But only because he doesn’t have any time to sit down and think about it, what with having to run round all the time milking lentils and fleecing the BBC.

Saving the planet is just a way to pass the time.

Crikey - Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups

Stephen Magee writes: Re. "Hamilton: climate emergency or a crisis of democracy?" (Yesterday, item 5). Clive Hamilton appears to suffer from febrile delusions rather than high ambient temperatures: "Anyone who is not very scared about global warming is not listening to what the scientists are telling us."

I'll started getting scared when: Quentin Bryce decides to stay at home, rather than wasting earth's natural resources by flying to climate change conferences in the Middle East; climate change "conferences" are held by teleconference, rather than in exotic holiday destinations; and all Greens MPs commute between home and Parliament without using oil products.

Climate change challenge by Professor Will Alexander « An Honest Climate Debate

...‘How can you be so sure?’ the chief asked. The weatherman replied, ‘The Indians are collecting firewood like crazy.’