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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