Six weeks later than promised, but hey.
Adam Kotsko has a great response to Hitchens’ latest on religion.
Likewise, I shall now describe the Hippie Two Step:

Someone points out that the particular conception of nature of another culture held by the doctrinaire hippie is not really held by anyone as stated.
Go on to blame the other culture [...]

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Green Party of England & Wales Principal Speaker Derek Wall debated with Chris Horner of the ever-evil/Ebell CEI last night on Aljazeera’s Frost Over the World.
Sir Frost is no Paxman, but Derek does a good job of exposing Chris for what he is. There’s not a family-friendly word to describe Chris Horner’s lies, but hey-ho, [...]

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The New Scientist recently published an article based on the work of one David Wasdell of the Meridian Programme, who claims that the IPCC AR4 SPM has ignored the effects of water vapour - though not in the same way Lindzen would normally do. No, this is a leftist attack saying the IPCC doesn’t go [...]

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A number of interesting posts this week.
Harry Brighouse reports on a new book discussing Basic Income Grants, a central tenet of Green policy. The book discusses BIGs against Stakeholder Grants, not entirely dissimilar to Labour’s baby bond:
I’ve been familiar with both proposals for a long time, and find both very appealing, I haven’t got a [...]

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A new category of my blog entitled “Totalitarianism and Ecology”
Anthony Paul Smith explains:
According to Neocleous “the concept ‘nature’ is, of course, deeply problematical” and “an empty vessel to be filled with whatever meaning is politically expedient”. The context for this is not nature “within fascism” but necessarily in itself. That is to say, Neocleous doesn’t [...]

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I’ve uploaded a segment from BBC Newsnight broadcasted on September 20th 2006 on climate change denialism. George Monbiot investigates the links between organisations currently spreading misinformation about climate change and those who spread misinformation about tobacco in the nineties.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fubJLYm4JJk

Paxman then interviews Myron Ebell from the Competitive Enterprise Institute and John Mitchell, the Chief Scientist at [...]

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Over the last few months, I have accidentally engaged in an ethnographic study of grassroots ecological direct action movements.
The result of my encounter with such a movement has resulted in a torrent of ideas which I will now try to write up over the next few months. My influences range from my obvious overused ones [...]

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