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Climate change, Perseus and Medusa, and Martin Beck
In reverse order; The Martin Beck novel sequence is an awesome achievement (the writing of it, not the reading). Written by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahlöö between 1964 and 1974, these ten novels, based around the activities of the Swedish murder … Continue reading
Posted in a little self-knowledge, activism, apocalypse, death, fear
Tagged climate change, Martin Beck, medusa, perseus
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Enlightenment, endarkenment, Private Eye and the end o’ the world
Two quotes- one from Private Eye, one from the Proceedings of the Royal Society B (as you do). Alas, he is a journalist, not a scientists or a philosopher king, and thus takes the journalist’s now standard route to enlightenment, … Continue reading
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Tagged AIDS, Anne Ehrlich, climate change, endarkenment, enlightenment, Malcolm Gladwell, Paul Ehrlich, Private Eye
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Chavez, climate change and the venality of academics
Dear Climate-L, I would like to share this short article with you on Venezuela’s climate change policy following the passing of President Hugo Chávez. Given that Venezuela holds the world’s largest known oil reserves its role at the U.N. climate … Continue reading
Hanna-Barbaric images to come…
“Those of us who spend our days trawling – and contributing to – the scientific literature on climate change are becoming increasingly gloomy about the future of human civilisation,’’ said Liz Hanna, convener of the human health division at the … Continue reading
Posted in activism, apocalypse, death, fear, framing
Tagged climate change, pending ecological debacle
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Nickels, bull-dozers and the standard DT misanthropy
“You’re picking up nickels in front of bulldozers” from some FT article, about investment “banking” and the attendant risks (unless, of course, you get the taxpayer to bail you out). What a brilliant image. It makes me think (as so … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, cognitive limitations, risk
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Climate change’ ‘warmists’ versus ‘skeptics’ versus reality?
Except, of course, the soi-disant ‘skeptics’ are nothing of the sort. Anyhows… from Marc Roberts [Amazing what you find in your “Documents” folder.]
Posted in a little self-knowledge, apocalypse, humour, politics, science
Tagged climate change
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Air heads and the power of ideology
So, I was going to do a “people be stoopid” post based on this clipping below, which I found while weeding piles of paper. You know “some people so totally lost … believe anything… Darwin Award…” The smug superior sort … Continue reading
Beautiful Russians and the end of the world
Sat opposite a distractingly good-looking (seriously – straight from the pages of some glossy high class fashion mag, or from the FT’s “How to Spend It” supplement) Russian and talked about… emissions pathways, climate sensitivity and the inevitability of some … Continue reading
Occupy the Atmosphere (shameful self-promotion alert!!)
Those clever (no sarcasm) and astute people at Rhizome are trying to get a conversation going about what the Occupy folks might learn from the experience(s) of Climate Camp. To this end they’ve asked me to pitch in. The discussion … Continue reading
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Tagged climate camp, climate change, movement-building, rhizome, social movements
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Youtube: Wicked Problems and Climate Change
Two bits of good news – climate change is not a wicked problem Helena Christensen cavorting on a beach
Posted in climate, competence, death
Tagged Chris Isaac, climate change, superwicked problems, Wicked Game, wicked problems
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