The Scientists are not divided

Despite the common perception amongst the general public that the scientists are divided about climate this is far from the case.  In fact, there is hardly an area of science where they are more united in opinion than they...

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Hoping it Might Be So

The OxenBY THOMAS HARDYChristmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.“Now they are all on their knees,”An elder said as we sat in a flockBy the embers in hearthside ease.We pictured the meek mild creatures whereThey dwelt in their strawy pen,Nor...

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O Climate Sceptics how wise how prudent…

  O Climate Sceptics how wise you are how prudent, for consider, if ten fire officers came to your house and nine of them said they were 95% certain that you and your kids would be burnt to death one...

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The ever restless and ever restful sea

 One of the outstanding memories of 2014 was the sea at Hunstanton in early December.  I felt the presence of the other that one senses in confrontations with the great  mysteries of nature as never before:                     Or sometimes...

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Deep darkness of December

Deep Darkness of DecemberDeep darkness of December Sodden silence in the drowned land. Storms rage and gales howl Turkeys run shrieking to their deaths. But still still. Darkness darkness Still still.Lights! Lights! Where are my switzers? Let darkness be...

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The immense extinction of the 21st century

 Half of all the species that exist will have disappeared by 2100.  Untold millions of beautiful creatures that took millions of years to evolve.  Surely this is the worst crime humanity has ever committed.  Who is it?  It's us....

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Amazing how few can see…

Amazing how few can see the great catastrophe that is coming, for if they did they would take the measures that even at this late hour we could still take to avert it.  Nowhere does eat drink and be...

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Life of Moshe

 Did Monty Python intend to mock the crucifixion of Jesus in The Life of Brian?   They were nice boys and I don’t think they did.   But suppose they had even given the faintest suspicion that they were mocking Jews...

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‘We were told that…’

 A favourite line in newspaper articles by climate sceptics is the sarcastic ‘We were told that…’.  We were told that  the climate would get warmer and look during the last decade we have had some very cold winters.  We...

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Darwin misinterpreted his own great discovery

 There can be no doubt that Darwin’s discovery of what he called, unfortunately I think, natural selection, was one of the great milestones  of science.  Organic beings are not so complex as they are because they were contrived by...

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