Earth Day 2019: The sixth mass extinction and the imperative of apocalypse

Having celebrated Earth Day and warned of various dimensions of environmental collapse since 1970, are there any circumstances even barely conceivable under which the environmental left would say that no…

MSNBC Twice Cancelled “Ratings Killer” Climate Action Advocate Katharine Hayhoe

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Climate action advocates are demanding MSM broadcast more climate change content, even if nobody wants to watch. The Media Are Complacent While the World Burns…

The cult of Greta Thunberg

This young woman sounds increasingly like a millenarian weirdo. By Brendan O’Neill writing at Spiked Online Anyone who doubts that the green movement is morphing into a millenarian cult should…

Peak Oil, Abiotic Oil & EROEI: Real(ish) Things That Don’t Matter, Part One: Peak Oil

Guest Seinfeld routine by David Middleton The plots of the Seinfeld TV show often revolved around trivializing important things and blowing trivial things out of proportion. While not a Seinfeld…

If Precipitation Extremes Are Increasing, Why Aren’t Floods?

From a paper by the same title published in AGU’s journal “Water Resources Resarch” and also “Commentaries on Hydrology and Earth Surface” h/t to CTM It is now well established…

Earth Day: Not a Single Environmental Prediction of the Last 50 Years Has Come True

Nicolas Loris, Bangor Daily News This Earth Day, it almost feels like we should be carving some turkey. Why? Because we have a lot to be thankful for since the…

Extinction Rebellion Downsizing their Climate Change Demonstrations

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Extinction Rebellion appears to be retreating in the face of growing pressure to stop disrupting the lives of ordinary people, though they call the retreat…