George Monbiot

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• Monbiot responds to Newspaper Girl

  
  Jon Slattery — Authority: 513
  George local newspapers arent worth saving Monbiot has responded to Newspaper Girl : "Thank you for your message. My column was not an attack on all the journalists working for local papers. I agree that many of them - like you - are hard-working and dedicated (though I have also met plenty of jobsworths and ...
  10 hours ago

• Denying Death

  
  frogblog — Authority: 578
  In Death Denial , George Monbiot notices that older people seem to deny anthropogenic global warming more readily than younger folk. He opens with a pessimistic view of the current state of the public discourse. There is no point in denying it: we’re losing. Climate change denial is spreading like a contagious ...
  1 day ago

• Newspaper Girl sticks it to Monbiot

  
  Jon Slattery — Authority: 513
  Liked this posting from Newspaper Girl on George "the local press isnt worth saving" Monbiots latest Comment is Free article . Shes angry and her passion for her paper shines through. "Opinion columns are 10-a-penny. With respect, although I understand that you are a highly experienced journalist, no-one on the ...
  2 days ago

• Oasis in the city...the National Arboretum

  
  Comings and Goings — Authority: 109
  Recently needing a long walk to relax and unwind, and panicking that its November (cause the fall color will only be around a bit longer), I decided to go to the National Arboretum for the first time in a while, because I knew it would be peaceful as well as beautiful. Of course, I had to fortify myself a bit ...
  2 days ago

• Monbiot: These local papers are worth saving

  
  Jon Slattery — Authority: 513
  George Monbiot on Comment is Fre e has listed the local newspapers that readers and, in some cases journalists, have contacted him to say do hold big business, councils and the powerful to account. They have responded to Monbiots scathing piece in the Guardian which claimed: "For many years the local press has ...
  2 days ago

• Monbiot backlash reaches Guardian letters

  
  Jon Slattery — Authority: 513
  Lead letters in the Guardian today take on George Monbiots provocative claim that local papers arent worth saving. Contributors include the boss of Guardian Media Groups Regional Media Mark Dodson. He writes: "Monbiots dismissive attack on their community value only demonstrated how out of touch he is. ...
  3 days ago

• Plimer’s London lecture sells out

  
  Harmless Sky — Authority: 109
  At a time when we are all meant to be good disciples of the new climate change orthodoxy you would think that a lecture by a leading sceptic filling a large lecture hall in London might be newsworthy. Well it certainly isn’t at the BBC. I was doing he usual start-of-day things this morning, while listening with ...
  3 days ago

• Editors hit back in Monbiot backlash

  
  Jon Slattery — Authority: 513
  The backlash against George Monbiots hatchet job on the local press in the Guardian continues today. Bob Satchwell (pictured) , executive director of the Society of Editors and ex-editor of the Cambridge Evening News , turns his fire on Monbiot in the Guardians Response slot . Satchwell writes: "Editors and ...
  3 days ago

• Peak Oil and conspiracy theories

  
  nothing new under the sun... — Authority: 419
  It hasnt gone away Just when you thought discussion of peak oil had peaked, its back . For those unfamiliar with the debate and why it is important, you might like to check out this brief introduction to the concept . Written back in 2003, it is one of the best short intros Ive seen. Even though global demand for ...
  4 days ago

• Wainwright defends local press against Monbiot

  
  Jon Slattery — Authority: 513
  Martin Wainwright on Comment is free rushes to the rescue of the local press following the hammering it was given by George Monbiot in the Guardian yesterday. Wainwright says: "Monbiot whacks a very broad brush over Britains local newspapers , which remain a delight for readers in spite of their ever more ...
  4 days ago

• Cambrian News readers bite back at Monbiot

  
  Jon Slattery — Authority: 513
  Readers of the Cambrian News have defended the paper against the claims of George Monbiot in the Guardian yesterday. Monbiot argued that local papers werent worth saving because they "exist to amplify the voices of their proprietors and advertisers and other powerful people with whom they wish to stay on good ...
  4 days ago

• Why local papers are not worth saving

  
  Jon Slattery — Authority: 513
  George Monbiot in a scathing piece on the Guardians Comment is Free damns local papers. He writes: "Like my colleagues, I mourn their death; unlike them I believe it happened decades ago. For many years the local press has been one of Britains most potent threats to democracy, championing the overdog, ...
  6 days ago

• peak oil gets anonymous endoresment from "senior IEA officials"

  
  punkscience — Authority: 114
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"If the real [oil reserve] figures were to come out there would be panic on the stock markets … in the end that would suit no one."As George has pointed out, its about time someone started asking searching questions of the UK ...
  6 days ago

• Call the CDC: British “believer” says “climate change denial is spreading like a contagious disease”

  
  I Hate the Media Article Feed — Authority: 625
  George Monbiot frets that people are finally waking up the the global warming scam Please allow us to translate: “Aw, crap, the truth is getting out.” “There is no point in denying it: we’re losing,” says British climate fretter George Monbiot said in the Guardian UK. “Climate change denial is spreading ...
  1 week ago

• Clive James isnt a climate change sceptic, hes a sucker - but this may be the reason

  
  Earthman, Come Home — Authority: 479
  Clive James isnt a climate change sceptic, hes a sucker - but this may be the reason : George Monbiot nails the worrying rise in climate change denial in the face of scientific evidence, before making a less convincing case for old age being the key characteristic of climate change sceptics.
  1 week ago

• Al Goreans Sell Inconvenient Truth Sequel As The Bible Code

  
  Anorak News — Authority: 622
  GLOBAL warming is no longer the terror it once was. Even rebranding it as climate change is not having the desired efect. What we need is a religious approach. Al Gore is on it. George Monbiot tells us: There is no point in denying it: we’re losing. Climate change denial is spreading like a contagious disease . ...
  1 week ago

• Wind energy

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 135
  Related posts on Clean energy Truly Eco-Friendly Wind Turbines   … one of the major issues many take with wind energy is their appearance. Tall, unwieldy and ugly, many communities simply find the turbines unseemly and would rather not have them built. While the windfarms in Cape Cod were finally built, ...
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• Monbiot Attacks Sceptics and Shows He Just Doesnt Get It

  
  Boatang & Demetriou — Authority: 496
  George Monbiot is probably a pretty nice guy when you get him off the subject of global warming/climate change. Probably.*Today in the Grauniad he writes yet another article attacking those who dare not to conform, except this time he takes a slightly different angle in that he attacks certain demographics. He also ...
  1 week ago

• Global Treaty on Climate Change 2009

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 135
  Global Treaty on Climate Change I ‘Hopenhagen’ BBC Green Room IPS Confronting Climate Change Financial Times Dossier Brilliant Greenpeace spoof of IHT Climate Change Science Compendium 2009 Climate change on Wednesday-night.com     Talks focus on climate document (Al Jazeera) Leaders ...
  1 week ago

• Monbiot’s gone round the twist. Even his Cif commenters have noticed, if he hasn’t.

  
  Tony Blair — Authority: 433
  Original Home Page All Contents of Site – Index Is ‘President Blair’ a shoo-in? Yes and No “Ban Blair-Baiting” petit ion - please sign Comment at end 27th October, 2009 Monbiot: “Making this ruthless liar EU president is a crazy plan. But I’ll be backing Blair” “If the man who ...
  2 weeks ago

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