There’s No Insulating Against Stupidity
From our Swindon Correspondent:
From The BBC
Hundreds of thousands of homeowners will receive vouchers of up to £5,000 for energy-saving home improvements, with the poorest getting...
Today’s Silly Idea – The Amazon Delivery Levy
From the Times
Internet shoppers could be hit by a compulsory delivery charge as part of a campaign to cut congestion and toxic emissions, The Times...
According To DeSmog Tim Worstall Is A Climate Denier
I find that I'm listed as a climate denier. Someone actively preventing the world from dealing with the major problem de nos jours. This...
You Must Not Call It A Lovely Sunny Day Because Climate Change
Weather forecasters, news editors, and the like must stop calling hot sunny days lovely, or nice, or celebrate that people might be able to...
St Greta’s Problem
Greta Thunberg has something of a problem with her plans for the world. Which is that exactly what she thinks should happen is happening....
We’ll Not Do Well With Idiots Like This Making Policy
This coming from someone employed in our newer universities as a travel policy analyst:
Nicole Badstuber is a transport policy and travel behaviour researcher at...
Twitterbots And Climate Change
Quite horrifying news that some quarter of all Tweets about climate change are created by 'bots.
The social media conversation over the climate crisis is...
A Question About Climate Change And Joined Up Government
In the Stern Review on climate change we are sternly (ahem) informed that we must abjure planning as a method of beating climate change....
Climate Change – So Let’s Just Be Poor Instead, Eh?
It's rare to see this so baldly stated. The alternative to climate change is that we all remain poor:
Can we fully absorb the scale...
The Argument For A Carbon Tax
The argument for a carbon tax isn't that it's perfect. Rather, given what the idiots are doing already that it would be better:
In 1989...