To the chagrin of some organisers, Sarah Palin decided to launch a bus tour of the American east coast by gatecrashing an event designed to raise awareness for military veterans. The move is seen as another sign Palin is testing the water for a presidential run. Asked by a reporter if all the photo calls on her trip [...]
Tag Archives: climate change
James Delingpole loses it
Libertarian James Delingpole’s denial of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) would be a lot easier if people would, y’know, stop asking him awkward questions and stuff! On his Twitter bio Delingpole claimes: “I’m lovely and right about everything”. Better change the first bit. And the last bit actually.
Climate campaigners leave giant Viagra pill outside Nick Clegg's house
Climate campaigners delivered a gigantic viagra pill to Nick Clegg’s Putney home this morning, urging him to to “get hard on climate change”! Presumably fearing the potency of the five-foot pill, Nick Clegg refused to come to the door was in Scotland and instead his wife Miriam used a video intercom system to ask the activists [...]
Every ash cloud has a silver lining for Cameron
With Messrs Hannan, Helmer and their friends preaching the “collective flight from reality” of climate change, the “60 year mistake” of the NHS and equivocating on gay rights, David Cameron may be praying the volcanic ash cloud remains – over Aéroport de Strasbourg and Bruxelles-National, at least: Cameron’s MEPs are his political equivalent of the [...]
Big boy bloggers must be big enough to admit when they get it wrong
On Sunday evening Iain Dale posted some extremely sloppy climate change denial ‘science’ submitted by one of his readers. Scrapbook won’t bore you with the details, but suffice it to say that the whole effort was completely and utterly flattened by Unity (@Unity_MoT) at Liberal Conspiracy and also by the Freethinking Economist. When it eventually came, the update [...]
Those conspiracy theories in full…
And for a brilliant, albeit less funny, debunking of the recent controversy surrounding emails hacked from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, check out the latest Climate Denial Crock of the Week. Sorry if blogging is light for the next couple of days… Scrapbook is off to see the Loch Ness Monster [...]
Star of Tory climate change conference was paid to deny effects of passive smoking
Left Foot Forward reported today that Tory MEP Roger Helmer is organising a “climate change sceptics’ conference” in Brussels. The list of speakers is a Who’s Who of climate change denial – people with an axe to grind in one hand and a distinct lack of peer-reviewed science in the other. But one name on the [...]
