Tag Archives: climate denial

Sorting scientific fact from fiction on climate

Posted on September 20, 2022 by John Gibbons

Seeking out and clinging to reassuring myths as an antidote to the often frightening realities around the climate emergency is a surprisingly common reaction among the public, and even persists amid the all-too-obvious signs of climate breakdown happening in real … Continue reading →

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Austerity or catastrophe: options grow ever narrower

Posted on July 16, 2022 by John Gibbons

Our chronic dependence on an invented system of growth-based capitalism that is destabilising the global climate system and laying waste to the natural world looks increasingly like a Faustian bargain, and metaphorical Mephistopheles is now knocking at the door looking for … Continue reading →

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When scientific facts and corporate fiction collide

Posted on January 24, 2021 by John Gibbons

The article below ran in the Business Post in late January. Just days after the inauguration of a new US president, it seemed like an opportune time to explain to a wider audience how the blitz of malignant lies aimed at … Continue reading →

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Withdrawing the social licence of fossil fuels

Posted on January 17, 2021 by John Gibbons

The once all-powerful fossil fuel industry is, at last, on the ropes. Behemoths like Exxon Mobil are bracing for massive drop in demand for their products in the next decade and more, as the global transition to low-carbon energy, currently … Continue reading →

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Biden throws floundering global climate action a lifeline

Posted on November 22, 2020 by John Gibbons

The article below appeared earlier this month in the Business Post. One crucial first step in tackling the climate crisis is for politicians to say ‘no’ to dirty money from the powerful fossil fuel lobby (who notoriously have spent freely … Continue reading →

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Sinking ever deeper into ecological debt and climate denial

Posted on January 31, 2018 by John Gibbons

Eschatology, or the study of the end of times, is at least as old as the written word. The concept spans many of the world’s major religions, usually referring to some future day of judgement or reckoning. Beyond the realms … Continue reading →

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The ICSF – Irish Contrarians Serving Farming?

Posted on May 15, 2017 by John Gibbons

When I first heard about the newly formed climate denier group, the self-styled Irish Climate Science Forum (ICSF), I tipped off my usual Dublin media outlets, but nobody was biting, so from there, I went to the London-based Desmog.uk, part … Continue reading →

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Dad’s Army of climate deniers rallies in Dublin

Posted on May 9, 2017 by John Gibbons

My piece below, as published last Friday on the respected climate science website, Desmog.uk. As outlined below, I was tipped off about the meeting early last week, and wrote to the organiser, Jim O’Brien, who informed me I would not … Continue reading →

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The meteorologist and the scourge of climate ‘over-alarmism’

Posted on May 14, 2014 by John Gibbons

Back in March, there was quite a kerfuffle when RTE PrimeTime tried to set up a ‘debate’ about the reality of climate change by initially loading a panel 3:1 in favour of the 3% ‘skeptical’ position that rejects or downplays … Continue reading →

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