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Review of ‘Saving the Planet Without The Bullshit: What They Don’t Tell You About The Climate Crisis’, by Assaad Razzouk
Read more: Review of ‘Saving the Planet Without The Bullshit: What They Don’t Tell You About The Climate Crisis’, by Assaad Razzouk‘We must resist oil, gas and coal companies trying to shift the burden for solving the climate crisis to individuals. Instead, we must compel them to assume their immensely larger responsibility.’ Razzouk’s frank and frustrated rancour against the duplicity and mendacity of Big Oil, is well argued and justified throughout this entirely readable journey through…
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Is the UK prepared for the climate emergency?
Read more: Is the UK prepared for the climate emergency?UK Water companies waste 3 billion litres of water every day With heatwaves, droughts and hosepipe bans part of Yorkshire summers, how effective is our response? With Yorkshire Water today calling for a hosepipe ban to start in two weeks’ time, we can now add water restrictions to the growing list of heatwaves, droughts, wildfires…
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Review of ‘Hothouse Earth’ by Prof Bill McGuire
Read more: Review of ‘Hothouse Earth’ by Prof Bill McGuire‘To have even the tiniest chance of keeping the global average temperature rise below 1.5°C, we need to see emissions down 45% by 2030.’ Over the last few days, Prof Bill McGuire’s latest book ‘Hothouse Earth’ came out. The Guardian newspaper gave a review/summary here, which gave the impression that Prof McGuire was saying that…
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Fossil Future- Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas- Not Less’
Read more: Fossil Future- Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas- Not Less’Alex Epstein No need to read this book- his supporters haven’t. Despite the author handing out copious free copies. This is a somewhat over-hyped ridiculous book, which endlessly quotes the author himself. Epstein makes ‘straw men’ arguments throughout- where he creates extreme scenarios and then attacks those, despite these never been said or written. For…