Somebody said to me yesterday that living in Ireland at the moment had pushed them to the point where they were wondering if they were the ones who had gone mad, and everybody else was still perfectly sane. “You start to ask yourself that”, this person said, “when nothing makes sense any more”. They were […]
The State broadcaster is supposed to be impartial – so why is RTÉ partnered with a climate change activist group? Ben Scallan reacts. #gript
“The case for zero was, and is, rock solid,” Gates writes in his new book.
Climate hysteria is, at its most basic level, a luxury belief that can be afforded by neurotic, well-to-do westerners. For many of those who are loudest about the green agenda, these beliefs are actually a status symbol. These climate neurotics are professional virtue signallers who can afford to pay more for energy. Their insistence in […]
There’s a golden rule when it comes to the Irish weather, and the Green Party: Any unusual weather at all is de facto evidence of Climate Change, and we can expect to be flooded and drowned within mere years if we do not immediately act. There is one exception to that rule, though: If the […]
At Eamon Ryan’s direction, the Irish government has moved to ban all oil and gas exploration, even as the country faces a potential energy supply crisis. Ben Scallan reacts. #gript
In many ways, this is the perfect first thing for a newly inaugurated Democratic President to do: It can be done at the stroke of a pen; it pleases all his own supporters; it sends the right signals internationally, especially in Europe; and it will have next to no practical impact whatsoever: President Biden: "We're […]
A former Green advisor to president Obama has a look at Joe Biden’s statements on the environment and says they are nonsense. In a point by point dissection of Biden’s climate assertions, he says Biden fails the fact check. Joe Biden’s sensationalist environmental claims were reviewed and eviscerated by Environmental campaigner, Michael Scellenberger, who found […]
The colossal hypocrisy of the green movement has been called out in a letter from an industry expert who supplies the materials that woke corporations use to make their products. Is it naive – or just deceitful – to think that you can “leave fossil fuels in the ground” and also live a modern life. […]
The average American Republican who does not subscribe to European, progressive, green-tinted views on climate change has a number of stock arguments. The science, they’ll say, is inexact, and far from settled. Projections of doom in a few years’ time are worst case scenarios. Even if the carbon levels in the atmosphere could be reversed, […]
“The IPCC is partly a scientific organisation, partly a political organisation”. That was what Richard Tol, a convening lead author of the 5th review of climate change from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), told Michael Shellenberger when he interviewed him for his recently released book, Apocalypse Never. In 2010, Tol was assigned to the team to draft the […]
‘Clean’ energy may not turn out to be so clean A recent article by Maddie Stone at www.slate.com warns that in the next decade or three, the world will face a novel but entirely predictable problem: what to do with millions of square feet of worn-out solar panels. This problem is especially ironic because […]