Six degrees – Our Future on a Hotter Planet, is the title of Mark Lynas’s 2007 book (this review is from the updated 2008 version) which seeks to give a broad overview of what mainstream scientific opinion (ie those which have appeared in reputable peer reviewed journals) suggests the world might look like over the [...]
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Mark Lynas – Six Degrees
Posted in book review, climate change, tagged climate, climate change, global warming, Lynas on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thoughts on ‘Should we Seek to Save Industial Civiliasation’
Posted in Ecophilosophy, activism, climate change, cultural criticism, environmentalism, tagged activism, climate change, grassroots, Kingsnorth, mon, Monbiot on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Recently George Monbiot has been in the blogosphere for his exchange with Iam Plimer in which he joined the bastion of scientists, bloggers and journalists condemning Plimer’s recent book. Personally I found his debate with Paul Kingsnorth far more interesting,
Kingsnorth criticises Monbiot for seeking to create ‘Liberal Democracy 2.0′ arguing that
‘What we face is what [...]
University of Copenhagen Climate Change Synthesis Report
Posted in climate change, environmentalism, tagged climate change, copenhagen, global warming, science on June 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The synthesis report from this year’s Copenhagen conference on climate change gives dire warning of the consequences of inaction about global warming. The report contains the most comprehensive update to climate science since the IPCC AR4 report. The report emphasizes six key messages, each of which is given its own chapter. Find the pdf of [...]
97% of Climatologists who are Actively Publishing work on Climate Change Believe…
Posted in climate change, media, tagged climate change, climatology, consensus, media, public opinion, science on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
that human activitity is a significant contributing factor to the observed changes we have seen in global temps over the last century according to a newly published study in EoS link to article. the entire results can be found published as a book here
Despite the concerted efforts of industries connected with fossil fuel production and [...]
The Three Ecologies – Felix Guattari
Posted in Ecophilosophy, activism, book review, climate change, cultural criticism, environmentalism, media activism, tagged activism, book review, climate change, ecology, guattari, philosophy on October 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Three Ecologies is one of the final works published by Felix Guattari (1930-1992), a French philosopher, political militant and institutional psychoanalyst. While Guattari is perhaps best known for his co-authored projects with Gilles Deleuze; Anti-Oedipus, A Thousand Plateaus and What is Philosophy; The Three Ecologies provides an excellent insight into Guattari’s stance on politics, [...]
HOPE: Hummer Owners Prepared for Emergencies
Posted in climate change, cultural criticism, tagged climate change, environment, greenwash, hummer on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wow… Naomi Klein quite accurately described this as ‘a bit like the Marlboro man doing grief counselling in a cancer ward”
Without a doubt one of the most laughable and simultaneously frightening pieces of greenwash I’ve seen in quite a while.
The Blundering BBC
Posted in climate change, media, tagged accuracy, bbc, climate change, journalism on August 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Debates over Anthropogenic Climate Change deal with probability in complex nonlinear dynamical systems. The issues are difficult for lay people to understand at the best of times due to their complexity, however any understanding of ACC is likely to be undermined by poor quality journalism.
In debates over media democracy stemming from Internet based telecommunications, professional [...]
Realism, Beliefs and Change
Posted in Ecophilosophy, activism, climate change, tagged beliefs, climate change, realism on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a response to some heated debate currently occurring on Bristol Indymedia…
http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/688696
Some thoughts on the Proff’s
‘Climate change is happening. We, and the generations before us, have caused it. It should not matter whether we believe it or not.”‘
And Art’s reply
‘Just read that last sentence again – “It should not matter whether we believe it [...]
Why I Won’t be Saving the World…
Posted in Ecophilosophy, activism, climate change, tagged activism, climate change on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Much of the rhetoric surrounding Anthropogenic Climate Change has thus far rested on the notion that human pollution is destroying the world, and that consequently we need to take action in order to save the world…
Put simply this isn’t true. The planet that we live on is far too big, and far too flexible a [...]
From Russia with Love… The Impact on Global Climate from the Champions League Final
Posted in climate change, cultural criticism, tagged climate change, culture, environment, sport on May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So last night was the UEFA Champions League Final between Manchester United and Chelsea. The neutral venue for these two English teams to play was not somewhere geographically sensible like Northampton, but Moscow. As in Moscow, Russia.
The distance from London to Moscow for Chelsea fans to travel was a mere 2498km each way, whereas the [...]
