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• Philip's New BlogPlease note that, officially, from ...

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  Philip's New BlogPlease note that, officially, from Sunday, October 14, 2007, I have started a completely new blog at a new site. This has just gone live. I do hope you will visit:Global Warming Politics: A Hot Topic BlogThe battle against so much 'global warming' claptrap must continue.Philip, off to' [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2007, 1:06pm EDT
  by Philip

• Full Stern Ahead to Much Waffle and ...

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  Full Stern Ahead to Much Waffle and Weeping, Hype and Hubris.....My apologies for not having commented on the Stern report - I have been immensely busy, including broadcasting and writing about the report in the press. At last, however, I have a moment, stimulated also by what must surely be [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2006, 9:53am EST
  by Philip

• Do I detect the first tiny rumblings ...

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  Do I detect the first tiny rumblings of a paradigm shift in climate-change science?"The greenhouse effect must play some role. But those who are absolutely certain that the rise in temperatures is due solely to carbon dioxide have no scientific justification. It's pure guesswork." [Henrik Svensmark, Director of the Centre' [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2006, 10:30am EDT
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• Time to shuttle off to that 'Home ...

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  Time to shuttle off to that 'Home Planet' again.....Our 11th Series of the critical environment programme, 'Home Planet', begins today on BBC Radio 4 at 15.02 pm BST. The Series then runs for 12 more Tuesdays into October, and, as with the last Series, it will include some Gardeners' Question' [...]
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  Posted: July 18, 2006, 6:07am EDT
  by Philip

• Going nuclear.....At last, we are to get ...

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  Going nuclear.....At last, we are to get a reasonable UK Government energy policy, and one that includes a new generation of nuclear power plants and a strategy for clean coal, exactly what 'EnviroSpin' has been proposing over the last two years [see: 'Nuclear plants set for go-ahead' (BBC Online Politics [...]
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  Posted: July 11, 2006, 9:33am EDT
  by Philip

• Where farming is concerned, beware romantic European ...

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  Where farming is concerned, beware romantic European nationalisms.....Recently, there have been a spate of alpine flower-tinted articles on old-fashioned European farming by middle-class journalists just home from their continental holidays, as well exemplified by Magnus Linklater writing in The Times ('Picturesque little farms, delicious local produce ... Obvious clue: not' [...]
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  Posted: July 09, 2006, 6:46am EDT
  by Philip

• The 10 final proofs of 'global warming'.....You ...

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  The 10 final proofs of 'global warming'.....You should believe in 'global warming' when.....(1) apocalyptic academics stop flying round the world to conferences and for their extended summer holidays - er, sorry - 'field research';(2) The Guardian and The Independent stop advertising cheap flights and holidays;(3) the Cameroonian middle classes give [...]
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  Posted: July 07, 2006, 11:53am EDT
  by Philip

• From Pooter to Lowry: saving the humble ...

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  From Pooter to Lowry: saving the humble British house from wheelie bins and solar panels..... If some latter-day Nikolaus Pevsner were to arise with a penchant for recording the Victorian and Edwardian terraced house and villa, every book in the series would, sadly, have to contain the following entry: "Anytown:" [...]
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  Posted: July 07, 2006, 6:58am EDT
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• Europe's hypocrisy and shame needs to be ...

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  Europe's hypocrisy and shame needs to be thrown in the Manneken Pis.....For 10 years, ecochondriac Europe has been lecturing and haranguing the rest of the world about 'The Great Global Warming Scare'. Its hypocrisy knows no bounds. The reality is truly shame-making:(a) Germany, Europe's biggest emitter of so-called 'greenhouse gases', [...]
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  Posted: June 29, 2006, 8:51am EDT
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• The 'global warming' industry (mafia?).....The excellent John ...

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  The 'global warming' industry (mafia?).....The excellent John Brignell over at Number Watch has produced a wondrous list of everything that the 'global warming' industry, or mafia, has concocted as media scares (and all on 0.6 degrees C over 100 to 150 years): 'A complete list of things caused by global' [...]
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  Posted: June 29, 2006, 5:16am EDT
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• Europe's climate policies fall apart.....As long-predicted on ...

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  Europe's climate policies fall apart.....As long-predicted on 'EnviroSpin', Europe's blatant hypocrisy in constantly claiming the moral high ground over climate change is being revealed for all to witness. It is not a pleasant sight.Europe's leadership is in tatters, as economic reality catches up with the rhetoric. Let's hope that we [...]
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  Posted: June 27, 2006, 5:37pm EDT
  by Philip

• Coming clean over climate change.....In their political ...

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  Coming clean over climate change.....In their political heart-of-hearts, all Governments (including those in Europe) know that there is absolutely nothing we can do predictably about climate change, and, indeed, extremely little practically to curb the rise of 'greenhouse gas' emissions. Unfortunately, through a type of tabloid-hysteria in the old broadsheet [...]
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  Posted: June 22, 2006, 9:27am EDT
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• New Mini Poll.....After much testing and searching, ...

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  New Mini Poll.....After much testing and searching, 'EnviroSpin' has, at last, a new Mini Poll service [with Pollhost]. This carries no adverts on the blog, but only on the results pages, and I approve entirely of Pollhost's policies, which reject web sites that exhibit racism, hatred, harassment, adult content, obscene' [...]
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  Posted: June 21, 2006, 1:11pm EDT
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• News without those pesky ads.....I am delighted ...

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  News without those pesky ads.....I am delighted to say that 'EnviroSpin' can now offer a regular 'Science News' ticker (courtesy of ABC) [opposite], without the danger of any uncontrolled pesky ads. The ticker checks for stories regularly (around every 10 minutes) - just click on the 'Headline' for the full [...]
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  Posted: June 20, 2006, 7:00am EDT
  by Philip

• An apology: the sudden removal of certain ...

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  An apology: the sudden removal of certain services.....I must apologise for the precipitate removal from this blog of certain services which I know were valued by visitors to 'EnviroSpin' (e.g. the daily 'Science News' and the Mini Polls). Very sadly, some of the advertisements put up by the service providers [...]
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  Posted: June 19, 2006, 2:52pm EDT
  by Philip

• Middle-class panics from MMR to 'global warming'.....Not ...

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  Middle-class panics from MMR to 'global warming'.....Not being a medic, I have refrained from commenting on the disastrous 'yummy-mummy' panic over the MMR vaccine and its [seemingly non-existent] link with autism [see: 'Misplaced autism worries fuel measles outbreak' (The Guardian, June 16)].As you may recall, confidence among the professional and [...]
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  Posted: June 19, 2006, 11:18am EDT
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• 'Sceptical Landscapes' back on air.....I hope it ...

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  'Sceptical Landscapes' back on air.....I hope it is not too solipsist to let you know that the five programmes of my little radio Series, 'Sceptical Landscapes', are being repeated, one after the other, each day this week on BBC Radio 4 at 3.45 pm (BST).You can listen in live each [...]
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  Posted: June 19, 2006, 5:09am EDT
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• Political ecology and environmentalism: Marxism through the ...

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  Political ecology and environmentalism: Marxism through the back door.....For a long time now, there has been an uneasy feeling that the grand narrative of environmentalism is morphing into the grand narrative of Marxism, but in a new guise. Of course, this is rarely admitted, or made transparent, the deep faiths [...]
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  Posted: June 18, 2006, 6:03am EDT
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• Wow! Animals evolve in response to climate ...

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  Wow! Animals evolve in response to climate change.....Many newspapers, including some which should know better, are getting over-excited about the 'discovery' that bees, butterflies, birds, and "b....." squirrels might actually adapt to climate change, a story more sensibly reported here: 'Recent, rapid climate change is driving evolution of animal species' [...]
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  Posted: June 09, 2006, 6:11am EDT
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• Wishful thinking versus the petrolheads.....Only recently, Sir ...

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  Wishful thinking versus the petrolheads.....Only recently, Sir Jonathon Porritt, he of the boringly-PC 'Sustainability Commission', called Jeremy Clarkson, he of the highly-successful television show, Top Gear, an "outstandingly bigoted petrolhead" [see: 'Scourge of the greens: Clarkson branded "a bigoted petrolhead"', The Independent (May 31)]:"He has insisted there is almost certainly" [...]
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  Posted: June 08, 2006, 5:23am EDT
  by Philip

• In the UK, just another day of ...

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  In the UK, just another day of carbon claptrap.....Yesterday was a classic for carbon claptrap in the UK, from BBC Television, from scientists, and from big business. What nonsense is being peddled in the name of 'global warming'!BBC Television, as ever, was the worst, with yet another gloom-mongering effort, 'Five' [...]
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  Posted: June 07, 2006, 4:46am EDT
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• Despite the tabloid vitriol, in the real ...

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  Despite the tabloid vitriol, in the real world Bjørn Lomborg is winning.....The most recent ad hominem attack on Bjørn Lomborg ("Not again!", I hear you groan) by Johann Hari in The Independent (May 20) [available at Hari's web site] is one of the more disgraceful for some time, and it' [...]
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  Posted: May 31, 2006, 2:14am EDT
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• Is the EU totally Cnutters?.....In its infinite ...

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  Is the EU totally Cnutters?.....In its infinite wisdom, and with God-like power, the EU has today decreed that we can STOP climate change, and that "YOU CONTROL CLIMATE CHANGE" [BBC Online Europe News, May 29] (I bet you are pleased!)King Canute (Cnut) I, Canute the Great, Knútr inn ríki, Knud [...]
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  Posted: May 29, 2006, 9:22am EDT
  by Philip

• Music to your ears.....Now I don't spend ...

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  Music to your ears.....Now I don't spend all my time battling the forces of irrationality.You might like to visit my new web site, just up on the Web, to see what I get up to in my spare time: Philip Stott's Music Box.I hope you enjoy Stotty's efforts. The first' [...]
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  Posted: May 26, 2006, 10:31am EDT
  by Philip

• 'Your Auntie Beeb NEEDS YOU!'.....Climate Chaos Comic: ...

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  'Your Auntie Beeb NEEDS YOU!'.....Climate Chaos Comic: Page 2 [as threatened: Page 1 was yesterday!]:[Copyright: Philip Stott, 2006]Philip, "Now get to it you procrastinating proles and 'Save the Planet'!" "Wot! No windfarm on your roof yet? You lazy laggard! Three showings of Climate Chaos for you then!" "I'm orf for'" [...]
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  Posted: May 25, 2006, 2:46am EDT
  by Philip