Nuts in May

The Telegraph is right: Scratch a worshiper of Blessed Gaia, find a bully.

Ptolemygate

Copernicus: Geocentric denier.

Update: Meanwhile, the Met Office, which has decided to stop pretending to have a crystal ball, says that the science isn't just settled, it's really, really settled.

Not that it has anything to do with this, of course.

Save the... Never mind

Wish fulfillment

PETA wants Knut the polar bear castrated.

That's only because they can't do it to the rest of us. Mind you, since animal rights activists also want animals to have the power (right makes no sense here) to sue human beings, maybe we have something interesting brewing. Since the animals can never sue anyone, it will be their activist proxies who will do the suing, so maybe Knut can be the epicentre of an internecine court battle that will bankrupt these human haters for good.

Correction: Sorry, "human haters" is unfair. Since they want all domestic animals to be driven to extinction, that should read "human and animal haters."

As to the whole dog in a manger animals-suing-by-proxy thing, let's hope it never comes to pass, because we are not that rich to be that stupid.

A matter of scale

Larger than Texas or smaller than New Jersey? Who cares when you're trying to Save the Planet^TM?

The wicker man solution

An infant girl survives her parents' murder/suicide pact made due to their fears of global warming.

As Stalin said, you can't make an omelette without using a self-serving scam to terrify people so much that they kill themselves and their families.

Save the Planet: Live in a slum

And the other advantage is that we commoners will be less visible to our Green betters as they motor from their estates to their private jets.

Sea-level-gate

Another day, another retraction. The IPCC's credibility is coming apart like a Lada going over a speed bump.

Update:

Didn’t President Obama predict the sea levels would cease to rise or something to that effect, if he were elected?

Warming goes cool

Global warmingism: Not dead, but definitely coughing up blood.

Update: Herr Hitler weighs in on the topic. (Caution: Profanity)

Clash of the clueless

When radical Feminists pick a fight with worshipers of Blessed Gaia.

I'll bring the popcorn.

Hurricanegate

We're going to start running out of prefixes.

Green Police battle thoughtcrime

Somewhere Lord Summerisle is smiling as he sees the world of his dreams.

I don't watch the Superbowl (I prefer real sports like rugby or chainsaw catching), so this advert is new to me. I have no idea who this is supposed to appeal to, except perhaps Outer Party members who somehow imagine that buying Minieco-approved cars will save them from Room 101–for now.

Treebeardgate

Another breaking scandal on the global warming front:

Trees will not uproot themselves and embark on blood-soaked killing sprees by 2035, global warming experts have admitted.

The International Panel on Climate Change confirmed the evidence had not been peer-reviewed and will now amend the section of its 2007 report devoted to 'killer trees'.

A spokesman said: "It appears the claim was not based on new data or field research but on that bit with the angry, talking trees in Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers."

However, they still stand by their claims about global warming causing hordes of slavering orcs to descend upon us.

Droughtgate

Now it's just getting silly.

Pensiongate

They're coming so fast you can hardly keep up with them. Climategate, then Glaciergate, and even before I had a chance to comment on Africagate we have Pensiongate.

The "settled science" of global warming is leaking out through more gates than Rome.

Climate consensus capers

Climate change, the MSM, and the blogosphere. Guess which ones look like the amateurs.

Bias blinders

To say that the BBC has a left-wing bias is like saying that killer whales are a very unfortunate thing to find in one's bath tub. Whether it's radio or television or the Web, if you tune into a BBC programme, you can be fairly sure that it will cover all sides of the issue: Left of centre, left, and far left with anything to the right of Clare Short reserved for the more exotic anthropology documentaries.

That's fairly sure, but not absolutely certain. That's because we're talking about "bias" here, not lock-step ideological conformity. Even the BBC can't afford to employ enough commissars to vet every second of airtime for ideological purity–not and pay their executives and, for want of a better word, talent the sort of salary the BBC condemns in every other industry. For that reason, Jeremy Clarkson has not been taken out by BBC snipers, Gordon Brown's face does not stare out of the telescreens ala Big Brother (and I don't mean the reality show), and the occasional report on global warming sneaks past that hints that manmade global warming might not actually have been pronounced true on golden tablets presented from the hands of Blessed Gaia herself.

That, however, isn't good enough for some people. Back in the 1980s, when the Grauniad was baying for Margaret Thatcher's blood with great passion and minimal copy editing, there was a cartoonist called Steve Bell whose Trotskyite strip "If" denounced all of the British news media as being firmly in Maggie's pocket. Aside from reasons that involve a lack of medication, Mr Bell seemed to base this opinion on the dismaying lack of inclination by everyone down to the junior copy boys to demand that the entire Conservative cabinet be drawn and quartered as part of coronation ceremony of King Arthur Scargill the First. Anyone who didn't agree with the agenda was clearly a raving Fascist with a picture of Ian Smith in his wallet.

Now those days are back with Sunny Hundal in the pages of the Guardian railing that the BBC is a hot bed of global warming "denialism" on a par, if not below, 9-11 truthers and holocaust denialists. Why? Because even though the Beeb never met a global warming scare story they didn't like (Yesterday they claimed it was killing off wolverines) the Corporation is clearly an implacable foe of Blessed Gaia. It's obvious; editors who allow a story or two that isn't a spit-lathered warmenist screed are clearly stooges of the Earth destroying capitalist death machine.

Keep taking the tablets, Sunny.

And the walls keep atumblin' down

Another story of warmenists concealing inconvenient truths.

What amazes me is that this story is being carried by left-wing newspapers.

Solar Balls

Leslie Shapiro over at Dvice waxes lyrical over these solar-powered lamps, saying that they:

Light the way in a rainbow of green goodness.

Yes, high-tech votary lamps to praise Blessed Gaia. Pace the green credentials of the solar panels and the nicad batteries, we use solar lamps at Chez Szondy to keep the paths lit, but have found that a) the batteries fail with mind-numbing regularity and b) they only really work well in the middle of Summer when you need them least.

That's why I've gone over to LED motion detector lights instead. Not as "green", but at least I can use them under the trees so I can get to the wood shed in the winter without tripping over roots.

Amazongate

When the warmenist movement comes apart, it explodes like a cheap blender.

Glaciergate graft

The Telegraph looks at Glaciergate and shows that it is far, far worse than someone taking an off-hand remark about Himalayan glaciers disappearing by 2035 and treating it as gospel.

What has now come to light, however, is that the scientist from whom this claim originated, Dr Syed Hasnain, has for the past two years been working as a senior employee of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), the Delhi-based company of which Dr Pachauri is director-general. Furthermore, the claim – now disowned by Dr Pachauri as chairman of the IPCC – has helped TERI to win a substantial share of a $500,000 grant from one of America's leading charities, along with a share in a three million euro research study funded by the EU.

Ouch.

Update: And it turns out that the "global warming causes disasters" story has had its chips as well.

Copehagen on the rocks

What a splendid week. Not only has the United States been saved from Socialism (hopefully) and The One's credit so low that Der Spiegel bids Farewell to Obama, but now Climategate and that inconvenient truth about the non-melting of the Himalayan glaciers has turned that tyrant's charter called the Copenhagen Accord into the nonest of non-starters.

Lord Summerisle is reported to be inconsolable.

CO2 corset

Lingerie designers apparently haven't heard about Climategate yet–which is the only explanation I can come up with for this corset that cinches tighter as it detects higher levels of carbon dioxide in the air.

Since CO₂ is a trace gas, let's hope that this thing has an overload switch or some poor woman is going to open a bottle of Perrier water and suffocate.

Eolic

I love wind turbines; so elegant, so monumentally disappointing. Take the Eolic folding turbine. It looks very nice and the little bundle it folds into just begs to be tucked under the arm. The only problem is this little equation

P = 0.5 x rho x A x V³

• P = power in watts
• rho = air density
• A = rotor swept area, exposed to the wind
• V = wind speed in meters/sec

That cube function means that for a turbine as small as this one (or any other size!) in any wind less than a Force 5 you'd get more power out of it if you just spun the thing by hand and anything more and the little bugger would tear itself to bits.

Pity. Nice colour scheme, though.

Power curve for a
one-meter diameter blade.

Cause and effect

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American evangelical Pat Robertson claims that the Haitian earthquake was due to the Haitians making "a pact with the Devil."

Silly Mr Robertson, get your deities right. We all know that the earthquake was because we cheesed off Blessed Gaia.

Death to the sceptics!

The logical conclusion of the worship of Blessed Gaia.

Looks like it's time to roll out the wicker man.

CO2 dress

For God's sake, don't breathe on her or you'll be denounced as a climate criminal before you can say say "cap and trade".

President Tin Ear

Barack Hussein Obama is in Copenhagen addressing the Climate Change conference where he is scolding away as if he can save the whole farce from disaster by shooting out Obama rays.

Two days ago I thought that there was no way The One was going to go to Copenhagen in the wake of Climategate and now that the outcome is certain to be little more than a bland statement of intent, but apparently he'd determined that his stumping for the Chicago Olympics won't be a one-off.

The man has all the foresight of Julius Caesar at the Ides of March. I particularly like the way the press is talking up Mr Obama's "talking tough" and "rebuking China". Talking tough? After the way Mr Obama literally kowtowed before the Chinese Premier it's a wonder that the Celestials didn't respond to his "rebuke" by laughing in his face.

Update: The One descends from Olympus and graces mere mortals with a "meaningful agreement" that "list national actions and commitments"... and makes the Civilised World cough up $100 billion a year to backwards nations, kleptocrats, and dictators.

And here I thought the caviar and Champagne conference would end with bureaucratic doublespeak for doing nothing while gouging the Civilised World for yet another fortune to pour down a rat hole.

Clowns against climate change

Sometimes you just have to take the seltzer bottle into your own hands.

Update: Tears of a clown.

What makes this interesting is not so much Mr McKibben's mawkishness as the near universal derision in the comments section. My favourite:

Earth to Bill – you’re not the reincarnation of Oskar Schindler.

Come fly with me

How to annoy a warmenist.

At least one chap purchased an indulgence.

Update: At least Nancy Pelosi is... Okay, no, she isn't.

Heresy

For the Party thy god is a jealous god...

Copenhagen roulette

Over at the New York Times, John Tierney tells climate "sceptics" to put their money where their mouth is and sign on to a carbon tax system where the rate is linked to temperature. If the "sceptics" are right, the rate goes down (actually, it doesn't go up as fast) and if the worshipers of Blessed Gaia are right, the rate goes up (a lot more).

Leaving aside the injustice of such a tax existing at all, I'll take up Mr Tierney's offer, but with a couple of slight modifications. Since Climategate, the Warmenist position is back to square one. Where I would contend that what we are seeing is natural variation until proven otherwise, the worshipers of Blessed Gaia claim something very specific: That computer models have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that

• The Earth is undergoing an unprecedented episode of heating
• That this is due entirely to increases in manmade carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
• That if this heating is left unchecked, it will result in catastrophic changes in the climate
• That the only way to do prevent this, with no possible alternatives, is to curtail manmade carbon dioxide emissions through a very specific political programme of global control, artificial shortages, punitive taxes, wealth redistribution, and an overwhelmingly powerful bureaucracy answerable only to an unelected elite
• And that the only authority to question this is through peer reviewed science controlled by warmenist advocates who decide what is peer reviewed.

That being said, the onus of this wager must surely be on those who advocate such a draconian regime, not those who oppose it. So, here is my alternative. First, instead of basing it on equatorial temperatures, it will be global mean temperatures because that is all that matters. Needless to say, this will be determined by means that I regard as reliable, not the likes of the CRU and their ilk. Second, the payoffs will be as follows:

• If the rise in temperature matches the accepted global warming model (there isn't one, by the way), then the carbon tax for that year will be paid in full.
• If the temperature does not change, then the tax will be refunded.
• If the temperature drops, the tax will be refunded ten fold.
• If the temperature rises, but not according to what the model predicts (whether falling short or exceeding it), then the tax will be refunded one hundred fold.
• All refunds will come solely from funds from past carbon tax collections. No other sources are allowed, nor can collected funds be spent for a period of ten years. If the refunded amounts ever exceeds those collected, the tax will be repealed.

Money where your mouth is, old boy. I mean, the science is settled. Isn't it?

Update: What causes climate scepticism? According to Richard Black: Men.

Update: Meanwhile, that red-blooded hero George Monbiot finds his mind crushed.

Update: From Russia with fraud.

Reprieve

The Copenhagen Climate Conference decides to give the Earth six more years before sacrificing the global economy and human liberty at the altar of Blessed Gaia.

Lord Summerisle was unavailable for comment.

Update: And if you're still worried about the effects of heightened CO₂ levels, remember that every cloud has a silver lining.

Update: Here's hoping the warmeningists get the memo.

Speaking science to credulity

Lord Monckton showing remarkable patience with a Greenpeace supporter showing commendable politeness.

Update: A rundown on Climategate so far.

Climate perspective

Wonderful, Wonderful Copenhagen

I've been trying to write about the Copenhagen Climate Conference since before it began, but something always seems to get in the way before I get through the first sentence. The latest was ten minutes ago when a neglected frying pan was left on a hot burner. This resulted in smoke, which in turn set off the smoke alarm, which sent Little Ann the Australian Shepherd heading out the doggie door while Carl the Cattle Dog tried to climb into my lap. Since he's now hysterical, weighs three stone eight pounds and has unclipped claws, this is not as pleasant as it sounds.

Excuse me.

That's better.

Part of the problem with trying to write about Copenhagen is that just about everyone on the planet down to the prostitutes handing out free sex to attendees has posted an article about the conference. The other problem is that it is so filled with targets that if they were ships they'd make a German U-boat captain burst into tears because he ran out of torpedoes in the first five minutes. Trying to write about this Holy See of Blessed Gaia is an exercise in pure frustration that I haven't felt since I walked into a free house in Wolverton that had 27 brands of real ale hand pumped off the wood.

Take the conference itself. Over one hundred nations have sent delegates on a mission to Save the Planet^TM by reducing "carbon" emissions despite the fact that it was openly acknowledged that the conference was doomed to failure before Ban Ki Moon threw out the first Canape. Instead, the goal of the conference (aside from washing down the caviar with a couple of buckets of Dom Perignon 1990 in between bouts of free nookie) is to draught a statement of intent to discuss the rescheduling or an interim debate to determine the feasibility of reconvening the focus group to revise the invitations to Copenhagen II: Revenge of the Taxpayers. That's if the civilised countries can stop yelling at the backward ones for trying to stop being backwards while the kelptocrats scream back that they need the aid cheque now because the next payment on the Mercedes is due. It makes me almost feel sorry for the Prime Minister of Australia who kept changing his plane tickets so he could meet Barack Hussein Obama and has to go back to Canberra with an "I went to Copenhagen to Save the Planet^TM and all I got was this lousy tee shirt".

At least the delegates are doing their bit to lower CO2 emissions by hiring every limo and private jet in the northern hemisphere so only the deserving disciples of Lord Summerisle will be doing the emitting in a good cause–like seeing what's shakin' down in Christianshaven. It isn't that I'm surprised at the Political Class acting like 18th century French aristocrats teleported into Weimar Germany with a sack of cocaine. The idea that they can live the chock full o' carbon high life while telling the peasants to use Google Street View to take their next holiday is to be expected. What I find suspicious is how their poker-faced prophecies of doom aren't matched by their proposals, which seem to boil down to making the free world less free and prosperous while enriching a load of dictators, bureaucrats, and social engineers who regard Brave New World and 1984 as instruction manuals. Look, if the world really was facing a global catastrophe, don't you think the Elite would take it a bit more seriously a do something more than trying to save the polar bears from drowning?

It seems to me that if things were really that bad and we only had 30, 20, 10, one year (or is it a week and a half now? I forget) to save the world, there'd be some major reprioritising. Instead, cap and trade, travel rationing et al are tacked on to every other bit of green nonsense we've had to endure for the past forty years. I'll believe that the warming alarmists are sincere when Obama, Brown, and the rest make a joint statement declaring that the nations of the world are instituting a crash programme of nuclear power construction across the globe that includes everything from nuclear batteries to fast breeders to thorium pebble reactors for dodgy nations with proliferation issues, that welfare benefits would be slashed and the money given to fusion research, that China stops building coal plants or face an all-out attack by the other nuclear powers, that all fossil fuel reserves be thrown wide open to provide the energy needed to power the transfer to a non-fossil fuel economy, that all other environmental protections become subservient to these goals, and that this will be funded by opening fast food franchises serving Kentucky Fried Polar Bear cooked in Atlantic right whale oil. First one hundred customers get a free giant panda fur coat with buttons carved out of genuine elephant ivory.

Of course, the real elephant here goes by the name of Climategate. You can tell when anyone brings up the subject in Copenhagen because you're immediately treated to the spectacle of 1500 guys in black tie stuffing their fingers in their ears and going "La la la la la! I can't hear you!" Small wonder when the settled science of global warming that two months ago was as impervious as Newton's Laws suddenly looks more and more like Piltdown Man. It also doesn't help when the investigators come off less like Einstein and more like Bernie Madoff as they shove another box full of primary data into the paper shredder. Not only does the scandal refuse to die as "hide the decline" enters into everyday usage, but warmists are discovering the yelling "shut up!" isn't that great a defence.

All this would be funny as hell if it weren't for the fact that what's at stake is more than the reputation of a few scientists and freeloading politicians. It's trillions of dollars and the freedom of a human being to literally fart without a bureaucrat's permission. Is global warming a hoax or is the warmpocalypse truly in our future? There are arguments for both sides and everything in between, but I think that between something rotten going on in the state of Denmark and something in the peer-reviewed climate science journals that smells equally of week-old fish, I think the one thing that is certain is that the "We only have (insert number here) years to Save the Planet^TM, so we have to act NOW!" is the real hoax and a dead one. We have the time. Let's get someone honest to do some real research under full public scrutiny to find out what's really going on with Earth's climate. Then the free, democratic, civilised people of the world will decide what to do. Not the UN. Not Al Gore. Not Gordon Brown, Not Barack Hussein Obama. Not the tyrants or the Third World kleptrocrats. But free men who choose for themselves after due deliberation, argument, and persuasion.

It's too important to have it otherwise.

Secondhand carbon dixoide

And pigs fly

The clue phone rings

Hello, Maldives? You can calm down. The sea is not rising and the sky is not falling. Thank you.

Global warming's Cronkite moment

Not quite, but a quote like,

Why would you throw out raw data from the '80s? I still have Penthouses from the '70s!

Goes a long way.

Nothing to see here

Times headline:

‘Nations will vanish and millions lose their homes to rising seas’

It seems that for the press Climategate is something that happened to other people.

Meanwhile, doctors try to heal the planet instead of the sick–by nagging.

Climategate

I see that Climategate is starting to get some traction in the mainstream press, though the New York Times, in a sudden burst of "ethics" says it won't have anything to do with improperly obtained documents. While the Warming camp may be dismayed that the public is learning that environmentalists aren't all that honest and their pet scientists are proving as susceptible to the blandishments of politics as mere mortals, at least they can take comfort that The One will Save the Planet^TM.

Update: Lord Monckton pulls no punches and calls the Warming scientists "criminals" and "fraudsters".

Update: Apparently, climate "scientists" aren't the only ones economical with the truth.

Update: Climategate causes caused George Monbiot to issue an apology. And the mountain has come to Mohammed.

Update: A story so important that the BBC let it sit on the spike for a month. Meanwhile, Richard Black, who the CRU e-mails reveals as a useful idiot, is still cranking out the scare stories. But then, so is the BBC in general as in this story that is 100 percent skepticism free. And they keep digging and digging. It's like the villain in a Scooby Doo episode insisting on shouting "WOOOOO!" after the mask comes off.

Update: Phil Jones: Fall guy?

Update: CRU to Earth:

So the very climate scientists who keep saying that global warming will be an unparalleled disaster for humanity are telling the Earth: Heat up, damn it!

Update: A summary of the story so far.

Update: Homer Simpson is aware of the situation–and, even less likely, Tom Flannery.

Update: The BBC leaps to examine Climategate and comes up with a 28 paragraph hand-patting of the poor victims at the CRU who are so cruelly put upon. All that ink spilled and not a single word for the sceptic's case. The BBC: no stone left unturned unless it doesn't fit the narrative.

Update: Petition!

Update: I remember when Scientific American under its great editor Dennis Flanagan was the flagship popular science magazine. I had a collection of back issues dating to the early '50s and regarded it as a godsend when I realised that I'd never be able to keep up with all the journal publications. I couldn't read them all, but at least SA could be relied on to give me an objective digest of what was going on. Now? Just another left-wing rag with an axe to grind.

Update: Long post, but well worth the time.

They're getting desperate

Stop global warming or... Or... Polar bears will fall from the sky!

Update: As God is my witness, I thought polar bears could fly.

Green wee

The National Trust wants people to start peeing on bales of hay so that people can not only Worship Blessed Gaia, but also Save the Planet^TM. According to head busybody Tamzin Phillips:

An average flush of the lavatory can use anything from four and a half to nine litres of water each time, but what people may not realise is that this water is treated to the same standard as drinking water and shouldn’t be wasted.

It's all very well when the Trust's head gardener advocates this as a way to get the composter going, but, quite frankly, with all this Green Party bilge the only unconventional place I have an urge to pee in is Miss Phillips's letterbox.

The thin green line

Thames Valley police are trying out the Mitsubishi i Miev as their next generation "green" squad car, but they've run into a tiny flaw: They can't use the blues and twos because it wears down the batteries.

Just as well. With a maximum range of 100 miles (if you're incredibly lucky), a top speed of 80 mph with a following wind, and an acceleration of 0 to 60 in... a while, the only motorists in fear of getting nicked by Thames Valley will be driving G-Wizs.

Disproving global warming with one letter

Lord Summerisle is not pleased.

Norman Bates, call your service

It's official; showers are an abomination in the sight of Blessed Gaia.

The French greet the news with an indifferent shrug and carry on as usual.

Meat is a Goldstein plot

"Climate chief" Lord Stern declares that the desire to eat meat will soon be classed as a thoughtcrime.

Please be advised that, like air travel, driving large cars, owning pets or having children, this will only apply to Proles and Outer Party members. In addition, the Ministry of Plenty states that livestock for animal sacrifices to Blessed Gaia will still be available in large numbers.

Eat your pets

Rest assured, Wickerman burnings will remain safe.

Your dog isn't a boon companion and helpmate from a line that extends back into the mists of time. He's an evil carbon-generating abomination fit only for the table.

That's the wonderful thing about "carbon". Since carbon dioxide is a natural part of literally everything that lives and breathes, if you can class it as a "pollutant" you can justify a universal dictatorship that has the shades of Mao, Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler kicking themselves for not thinking of it first.

Via Watts up with that?

Bunny power

Sweden provides worshipers of Blessed Gaia Environmentalists with a dilemma: Now that the Swedes are burning cute little bunnies to generate electricity, how do you find Vegan power outlets?

Now all we need are Internet servers that run on kittens and they'll be reduced to dusting off old mimeograph machines.

Bedtime story

Once upon a time, there was a group of environmentalists who, never thinking that it would apply to them, decided to destroy civilisation and reduce their fellow men to serfdom. Their leader, Lord Summerisle, said...

On the other hand, when the BBC stops being a collection of true believers, then you're in real trouble.

Update: Instapundit has a post on Columbus that includes an interesting quote about environmentalists and other self-appointed elites:

This is primarily an effect of the Calvinist Puritan roots of American progressivism. Just as Calvinists believed in the centrality of the depravity of man, with the exception of a minuscule contingent of the Elect of God, their secularized descendants believe in the depravity and cursedness of Western civilization, with their own enlightened selves in the role of the Elect.

Up the passage

Great story. Pity it's a load of fetid dingo's kidneys.

Money quote:

Is it so hard to use Google?

Update: And on the other side, we have this revealing little gem:

Personally I cannot see any alternative to ramping up the fear factor.

Green nitpicking department

From the National Geographic:

As the Dead Sea—really a giant freshwater lake—dramatically shrinks, Palestinian, Israeli, and Jordanian environmentalists have begun to devise ways to slow the decline.

Unfortunately, the Dead Sea is really a large saltwater lake that is so saline that it is, for all practical purposes, dead.

From Slashdot:

Mr_Blank writes to mention that the United States' largest business lobby is pushing for a public trial to examine the evidence of global warming and have a judge make a ruling on whether human beings are warming the planet to dangerous effect. "The goal of the chamber, which represents 3 million large and small businesses, is to fend off potential emissions regulations by undercutting the scientific consensus over climate change. If the EPA denies the request, as expected, the chamber plans to take the fight to federal court. The EPA is having none of it, calling a hearing a 'waste of time' and saying that a threatened lawsuit by the chamber would be 'frivolous.' [...] Environmentalists say the chamber's strategy is an attempt to sow political discord by challenging settled science — and note that in the famed 1925 Scopes trial, which pitted lawyers Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan in a courtroom battle over a Tennessee science teacher accused of teaching evolution illegally, the scientists won in the end.

Not quite. Scope was found guilty and his conviction was later overturned because of the vagueness and constitutionality of the law involved, not the scientific validity of Darwinism.

When you have Blessed Gaia on your side, who needs fact checking?

If God had meant us to fly...

Lord Adonis, the British transport minister, wants to ban all domestic flights in favour of high-speed rail saying that this is "manifestly in the public interest because it pays worship to Blessed Gaia helps Save the Planet^tm.

Some feel that this does not go far enough and demand that rail services be abolished in favour of passenger-carrying canal boats, but I'm holding out for the revival of the horse-drawn coach, which will be a shot in the arm to inns up and down the country.

Carbon cops

Since controlling CO₂ emissions means giving the the government literally the power to regulate your right to breathe, it's no surprise that the Greenshirts have at last been let loose to stomp a boot in the face of thoughtcrime over and over again forever.

Lord Summerisle, call your service

Why am I not surprised?

Eco-Sabbath

In service to Blessed Gaia, observe an "eco-sabbath" and remember to "believe with all your heart."

No prizes for seeing where this sort of thing is going.