To do _something_ would be very inconvenient.

But cripes, have you read that article in the Listener about carbon emissions per person from various types of vehicle?

Fortunately Kottke published a link to this How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic guide today, so if I do ever meet one of this fabled species I shall be prepared.

Any theories as to what drives the climate change deniers?

I think it just suits them to carry on as they are. For one reason or another.

And also, over the years there have been various popular theories espoused that have come to nought – population explosion, ice age, pupper…

jeebuz likes to keep it nice and light-hearted.

I remember David Bellamy coming to speak at my school in 1990 or 1991, and…

the ice caps melt into the oceans, cooling the earth slightly.
but, heating continues and the oceans gradually evaporate up into the atmosphere to form clouds. this increases the reflectiveness of the atmosphere, again the earth trying to cool things slightly.
but,…

As more and more of the mainstream come around to seeing future climate change as a real, tangible risk, and seeing mitigation as the correct response as opposed to…

:)

I went along to the Wellington Climate Change Festival (or at least part of it) at the Paramount, mainly to listen to what the National BlueGreen position sounded like coming from Nick Smith. Quick summary:

Marian Hobbs- Blah blah blah ... lots of nice…

but on the subject of lovelock, i read the first gaia book back in 1990 and it fundamentally changed my perspective on consumption and its impact on humanity. i kind of get that he's moved from trying to make people aware of climate change…

The climate change denial culture, ironically, reminds me of the anti-GE movement online, in that you see the same tropes go around and around, even after the majority of scientists have done with them and moved on.

There's a scary symmetry between Chris de Freitas (global warming skeptic) and Peter…

Example: Christopher Monckton's piece for the Telegraph. The right-wing blogosphere has been all…

I agree with the idea that nuclear power is going to become increasingly important (and environmentally friendly) but my main objection to it is economic and practical: a country like ours with no preexisting nuclear infrastructure is going to…

In a BBC panel of boffins, they largely agreed with Lovelocks data, but disagreed with his assertion that nuclear…

Thanks for your thanks; and glad to hear the graphs were of some use to you.

With regards to the 'New Zealand can't do nothing' argument, your point is an interesting one and highlight's one of the dilemmas of living in a globalising world. All of a sudden…

The one thing you could say for Garth George is that he makes the other climate change deniers look relatively intelligent. Or something.

Raymond:

Ok the climate has changed but it always has, it is not and never has been a static thing[.] Possibly human activity has caused…

I know that [climate change/polar caps melting] is codswallop, and…

As the climate scientists point out, the weather is not the climate. Studying your local conditions is obviously important if your livelihood depends on it, but this is like saying that I study the speed of my ADSL link, and this makes me an expert in the intricacies…

I am presuming that all those people being really intense in Berlin and other places were the same people that rushed to buy up all the Tami Flu(sic) tablets when we were all going to die of bird flu last year.

And…

On the other hand I have spent the last 30+ years closely studing the local weather and the extended patterns of the last millenium
Because my livelyhood depends directly…

Marsden B Scaled Again for Global Climate Rescue Radio Station

Greenpeace activists today scaled the 60m Marsden B power station which is planned to convert to coal and are setting up a radio transmitter on the roof.

Greenpeace is also beaming "climate rescue radio",…

silly me for believing the 17 national academies of science,…

This weekend Greenpeace has decided to become the media – yep that's right – they're running their own radio station!

They'll be doing interviews with activists and those taking part in the Global Day…

I won't make it there myself but it looks like a jolly day out, complete with sack races, three-legged, egg-and-spoon and slow-bike races, petanque, badminton, croquet, kite-flying etc etc. Seedlings…

Thanks to the irrational alarmism of the "global warming" movement I'm into personal longevity. I want to be around well after 2050, not to thumb my nose at the sheep-like…

In Auckland, they're going to rough up your downtown traffic system a bit, I think:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10408656

And the usual talkfest:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0610/S00053.htm

In Wellington, we're going to have a film/talk fest at the Paramount.…