Guest “attaboy” by David Middleton Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment” and Green Book Award Winner Michael Shellenberger slaps down the apocalyptic climate change propagandists… Nov 25, 2019Why Apocalyptic Claims About Climate Change Are WrongMichael Shellenberger Environmental journalists and advocates have in recent weeks made a number of apocalyptic predictions about the impact of climate…
Guest ridiculing by David Middleton This post employs Billy Madison as a euphemism. Fossil fuel divestment is, by definition, Billy Madisoned. It is a concerted effort hold back or slow down fossil fuel production by cutting off access to capital. Fossil fuel divestment is “a really futile and stupid gesture”. An investment can only be…
Guest ridiculing by David Middleton I only had to read one sentence of Elizabeth (Fake Mass Extinction) Kolbert’s interview of Bill McKibben to know that it would be rife with material worthy of ridicule… “Thirty or 50 years out, the world’s going to run on sun and wind, because they’re free,” McKibben says. Yale Environment…
Guest ridiculing by David Middleton This is sort of a sequel to yesterday’s post about “Weepy Bill.” How often have you seen grandiose statements like these in moronic articles about fossil fuel divestment movements? Global Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement Reaches $6.24 Trillion in Assets Under Management The new divestment report, by Arabella Advisors, calculates that…
Guest NOT! by David Middleton At last, divestment is hitting the fossil fuel industry where it hurts Trillions of dollars of investments are being taken out of carbon-intensive companies. Governments must now take notice Bill McKibben Sun 16 Dec 2018 I remember well the first institution to announce it was divesting from fossil fuel. It…
Guest hit piece by David Middleton Talk about the poster child for irrelevance… Climate politicking isn’t working. We need climate civil disobedience By BILL MCKIBBEN OCT 09, 2018 | 12:45 PM The small town of Bagley, Minn., looked set to be the scene for one of the nation’s most interesting airings of the climate controversy this week. Three…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Prominent climate activist Bill McKibben is unhappy that fund managers seem to be putting profits ahead of action to curb climate change. Let’s give up the climate change charade: Exxon won’t change its stripes Every year at the shareholders’ annual meeting, there is an attempt to push the company on…
Guest post by David Middleton Maybe ExxonMobil should file a RICO lawsuit against the “Shukla 20”, Inside Climate, the LA Times and this gentleman… Exxon Knew Everything There Was to Know About Climate Change by the Mid-1980s—and Denied It And thanks to their willingness to sucker the world, the world is now a chaotic mess.…
You just have to laugh. In their zeal to make the current drought situation all about their irrational CO2 fears, Bill McKibben’s 350.org tweeted this ridiculous comparison of before and after at California’s Folsom Reservoir, near me. Only problem is, the devil is in the details. See the picture then click to enlarge.
Prepare yourselves for the second coming of Katrina, because you can bet that this storm will be hyped as an indicator of “global warming”. As of this writing, the storm is in the process of making landfall in the Philippines and it is moving west at 20-25 knots and estimated winds of 170 knots (195mph).…