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How we push climate Armageddon to the back of our minds. John Gibbons interviews Kari Marie Norgaard A few minutes into Dr Kari Marie Norgaard’s recent lecture in Trinity College, Dublin, she ran a short animation showing the steady ratcheting up of global surface temperatures over time. The clip began in 1950. By the […]
Mann enough ‘His ‘hockeystick graph’ became the defining symbol of man-made climate change – and made him a special target of the fossil-fuel lobby’ ‘If you as a scientist share the stage with an industry-funded denier, you are implicitly telling the audience that these are two equally credible voices – and they’re not’ John Gibbons […]
Partridge leaves the building. Pat Kenny doesn’t like facing up to climate change by John Gibbons The classic comedy series I’m Alan Partridge where a former national chat show host is reduced to working the graveyard shift on a local radio station is chock-full of toe-curlingly awful moments. In one infamous episode, Partridge has insulted […]
Why do billionaires tend to be visionless climate-denying misanthropists? Village Oct/Nov 2013 – 11 Oct As evil plutocrat villains go, Australia’s Gina Reinhart is straight from central casting, writes John Gibbons. The daughter of a mining tycoon, she is now regarded as the world’s wealthiest woman, with an estimated worth of around $20 billion. […]
To be saved, abandon hope. Irrational hope is the mortal enemy of resolve, as it blindsides us to our existential predicament. By John Gibbons