Guest essay by Eric Worrall The UK Government has announced a ban on cotton buds, drink stirrers and plastic drinking straws to combat the “scourge” of plastic pollution. Cotton buds and plastic straws could be banned in England next year Consultation to start later this year as Theresa May continues drive against single-use plastic waste…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A self identified Libertarian who believes in “aggressive” carbon taxes thinks ordinary Republicans can be persuaded to embrace his ideas if the party leadership tell them what to do. How the science of persuasion could change the politics of climate change Conservatives have to make the case to conservatives, and…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The left wing Australian Northern Territory Labor government has shocked greens, breaking ranks with other left wing Australian state governments by lifting a ban on gas fracking. Northern Territory lifts fracking ban, opening up 700,000 sq km to gas exploration Staff and agencies Tue 17 Apr 2018 10.24 AEST First…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Sky News, one of Australia’s most popular news services, just gave climate skeptic and geologist Ian Plimer an honest opportunity to explain what is wrong with Australia’s climate obsessed energy policies. It’s ‘not possible’ to have cheap, reliable energy and reduce emissions Geologist Ian Plimer told The Outsiders that Energy…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Judge Mary Ann Driscoll has dismissed criminal charges against protestors including Al Gore’s daughter on the grounds that their actions were necessary to prevent climate change. Judge sets aside charges in pipeline protest Jordan Graham Thursday, March 29, 2018 … The protesters, including Karenna Gore, the daughter of former Vice…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Newsweek is worried that Republicans are becoming more climate skeptic. UNDER TRUMP, FEWER REPUBLICANS THINK GLOBAL WARMING IS CAUSED BY HUMANS BY TIM MARCIN ON 3/28/18 AT 2:06 PM More than a full year into the Donald Trump experience, Republicans have grown more skeptical about climate change compared with the…
Steve McIntyre the Canadian mining engineer and math wizard who discovered why Michael E. Mann’s original hockey stick of global temperature data was made of bunkum wood, has now discovered yet another one, and it appears not to use adjusted data, but raw data. This one also indicates temperature, but of a different kind. It…
