George Monbiot

Welcome to the 'George Monbiot' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'George Monbiot'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “George Monbiot”

• Humans are descendants of aquatic apes [As proven in Copenhagen]

  
  Bleeding edge blog — Authority: 135
  Copenhagen has conclusively revealed that Humans are nothing more than the bathing Apes. With the application of great scientific effort and political will we negotiated the reality of our link to the aquatic apes. Since we are as comfortable with our world going underwater as the Aquatic apes are – we are their ...
  2 days ago

• 2009: What did we learn?

  
  Thought Leader — Authority: 492
  2009 revealed some incredible things to the ordinary person. It was a startling year jam packed with scandal, drama and some serious historical events. A blog is just too short to list all of them, so excuse the number of links here. Hope you enjoy.We learnt that…Nothing is impossible.Nobody is predictable.Nobody is ...
  5 days ago

• response to my anonymous commenter

  
  punkscience — Authority: 428
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~This is my response to this comment, left on my post about who wrecked Copenhagen (apparently it was the Chinese). Its too big for the comments because of all the text Ive pasted in so its earnt its own post:Im a little confused by ...
  1 week ago

• Innovation and Dinosaurs

  
  UrbanWorkbench — Authority: 124
  This recent article in the Guardian about the lack of energy innovation in the US by George Monbiot is sure to raise more than a few hackles… As if to hammer home the point that the Department of Energy seems to be stuck in a time-warp, and as if to highlight the sad decline of technological innovation in the US, ...
  1 week ago

• Global Warming Creates Giant Turkeys: George Monbiot Rejoice

  
  Anorak News — Authority: 595
  PANIC merchant George Monbiot has news that any change in “global temperature reduces the range of places that can sustain human life.” Before we get to the good news, Monbiot has more facts: During the last ice age, humans were confined to low latitudes. The difference in the average global temperature ...
  1 week ago

• George Monbiot on ClimateGate & the climate denial industry

  
  Open Parachute — Authority: 430
  Lord Christopher Monckton, the 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Public comments on the “climategate” emails have certainly been varied. From one extreme like Lord Monckton who uses it to justify his outlandish giant conspiracy theory, to the more rational discussion by science journalists. George Monbiot , ...
  2 weeks ago

• Naomi Klein and George Monbiot on climate change talks – Videos

  
  Nima Maleki: Politics and Critical Thought — Authority: 125
  Naomi Klein on US demand for ’structural adjustment’ demands associated with climate change talks as a form of blackmail: George Monbiot on climate change and the Copenhagen talks, and Lucia Green-Weiskel on China during the talks:
  2 weeks ago

• After Copenhagen

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 515
  In the wake of the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Change conference, we’re starting to see some more thoughtful analyses which go beyond the proximate causes of the imbroglio to gesture to more structural factors. Robert has already cited George Monbiot’s recent blog post . I’d like to take a look at a ...
  2 weeks ago

• George Monbiot soundly thrashes Ian Plimer and his volcano CO2 claims, in live debate on Australias ABC TV

  
  Climate Change: The Next Generation — Authority: 456
  Ian Plimers volcano claims vaporise under questioning on Australian TV Climate denier finally airs his weaknesses with inaccurate statements on science and bullying among academics • Watch the debate on Australian television Guardian journalist George Monbiot is beamed into the studio of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• George Monbiot: Copenhagen negotiators bicker and filibuster while the biosphere burns

  
  Climate Change: The Next Generation — Authority: 456
  Copenhagen negotiators bicker and filibuster while the biosphere burns George Monbiot despairs at the chaotic, disastrous denouement of a chaotic and disastrous climate summit ...
  2 weeks ago

• COPENHAGEN COP OUT

  
  Rupert Mallin — Authority: 141
  George Monbiot is right: the failure to reach a real agreement to tackle global warming illustrates how the very air we breath has become a resource for the New Imperialism to plunder. Without limiting the global temperature to a rise of LESS than 2C the environmental consequences for the planet look worse today than ...
  2 weeks ago

• George Monbiot in Copenhagen gives impassioned speech on "Why We Fight"

  
  Climate Change: The Next Generation — Authority: 456
  George Monbiot in Copenhagen gives impassioned speech on "Why We Fight" Dear Readers, Please pay careful attention to what Monbiot says at about minute 2:00 and thereafter.  I truly wish he would consider making a speaking tour of the U.S. for the entire month of January.  He is very eloquent and credible.  Hes ...
  2 weeks ago

• At Copenhagen, world leaders bicker while biosphere burns

  
  frogblog — Authority: 517
  I might as well keep featuring George Monbiot, incisive as ever, this time about the “leadership” shown at Copenhagen. Even before the farce in Copenhagen began it was looking like it might be too late to prevent two or more degrees of global warming. The nation states, pursuing their own interests, have each ...
  2 weeks ago

• Future of England Speeches

  
  Campaign for an English Parliament — Authority: 118
  For those of you who could not attend the Future of England debate, the speeches of all four speakers are now available. Paul Kingsnorth Peter Facey George Monbiot David Wildgoose
  2 weeks ago

• Climate Denial And The Roar Of The Universal Ape

  
  Canada's World — Authority: 432
  Even as negotiations in Copenhagen go down to the wire , the thoughts of many people seem to be turning to the psychology of what is sometimes called climate denial. BBC blogger Richard Black notes that virtually all the deniers are male, a pattern that ultimately leaves him stumped. Over at the admirable Skeptic ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Strange Spread of Climate Change Denial

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: blue marble — Authority: 139
  George Monbiot , the Guardian columnist and global warming author who combines pugilistic defenses of climate science with Monty Pythonesque levity, is struck by a paradox at the heart of the attempt to achieve action here in Copenhagen. For, as he put it to a full room last night at a panel hosted by the Danish ...
  2 weeks ago

• This is bigger than climate change. It is a battle to redefine humanity

  
  frogblog — Authority: 517
  It’s hard for a species used to ever-expanding frontiers, but survival depends on accepting we live within limits George Monbiot continues to speak bluntly of the reality humanity faces in this article  on the Copenhagen climate summit. I was sorely tempted to post the whole thing as I did recently with ...
  3 weeks ago

• Canada, not Iran or China, the major threat to a peaceful, stable World?

  
  NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS — Authority: 483
  According to George Monbiot in the Guardian:Canada is a cultured, peaceful nation, which every so often allows a band of Neanderthals to trample over it. Timber firms were licensed to log the old-growth forest in Clayaquot Sound; fishing companies were permitted to destroy the Grand Banks: in both cases these ...
  3 weeks ago

• UK 1; Australia 0

  
  nothing new under the sun... — Authority: 114
  Yesterday, prominent Australian climate sceptic Ian Plimer debated UK Guardian columnist George Monbiot on ABCs Lateline . The result? UK 1; Australia 0 . After some initial conversation about the hacked emails , the discussion turns to two of Plimers best-known claims, that volcanoes produce more carbon ...
  3 weeks ago

• Taking the power back at Copenhagen

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 145
  It’s started snowing here in Copenhagen. The sky has clouded over and there’s a definite chill in the air. On Monday, hundreds of people with official accreditation began to get shunned from the UN climate change talks at the Bella Center. They queued up for several hours outside waiting to get in. Inside, ...
  3 weeks ago

Comments about George Monbiot