Category Archives: Global warming

Competition time! Update

Posted on September 29, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Thank you to BristleKRS and Shawn for having a crack at the recycling press release competition. Although I’m sorry to have to inform you that unfortunately it wasn’t a real competition at all. It was in fact a rhetorical device … Continue reading →

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Competition time! Here's a clue . . .

Posted on September 27, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Not much joy with the comp yet so here’s a clue. The key phrase in the convoluted spin is: waste chargeable (The Blogger is expecting to take delivery this evening of a draft copy of the citizen’s jury report. Any … Continue reading →

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Competition time!

Posted on September 26, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Big prizes to be won: This is a small section of the council’s recent press release about the recommendations of the recent citizen’s jury on recycling. All you have to do is tell us what you think it it means. … Continue reading →

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A lovely, social time for all?

Posted on September 24, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

You’ve gotta love the local anarcho-cyclist Critical Mass contingent. They’re now optimistically describing their last effort in Bristol back in May as “a lovely, social ride around Bristol”. Although they do go on to say: “There was a near police … Continue reading →

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Vowlsie ain't gonna like this!

Posted on September 24, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Redland Conservatives are running a Film Night on 18 October 2007 at the Conservative Club, 5 Westfield Park, Clifton, Bristol. The film? Mine your Own Business – The Dark Side of Environmentalism I fear Vowles the Green is going to … Continue reading →

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Toff's looney index

Posted on September 13, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The latest salvo fired by this emerging toff/green alliance is today’s publication of the Tory’s Quality of Life Report, produced by billionaire environmentalist Zac Goldsmith and Thatcherite oddity John Gummer, fondly remembered by many for trying to force feed his … Continue reading →

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Climate Camp: ha, ha, Hari

Posted on August 19, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

So who’s the one reporter invited by the organisers to Heathrow’s increasingly farcical Camp for Climate Change and given free rein to wander around and do what he likes while other journalists must have a “media savvy” climate camper escort … Continue reading →

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Long live the climate camp! The main event of the 21st century and the beginning of the worldwide historic turn of humanity away from capitalism

Posted on August 16, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The thing that’s really struck me about this Climate Camp at Heathrow is the paranoia and control freakery around the press. As The Guardian’s Helen Pidd says: “For a gathering founded on anarchist principles, the Camp for Climate Action doesn’t … Continue reading →

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Greener than thou

Posted on August 11, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

An ungreen corn starch bag? A green newspaper? We all know what bloody environmentalists are like once they get going, so it might be asking for trouble bringing this up, but I notice that both of our green blogger friends … Continue reading →

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Tinfoil helmet Tory loonspud councillor of the month

Posted on July 26, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

A man in a tinfoil helmet Well done the people of Bradley Stoke for electing Tory Councillor Brian H Hopkinson. This totally bonkers amateur climate change theorist reckons that air flights actually reduce global warming! How so you wonder? Well, … Continue reading →

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