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A column in the paper.

Posted by Tim B. on 02/03/2007 at 11:51 AM

  1. as posted to the ST:

    Has anyone told Monbiot that Frisbees (a US invention) are made of PLASTIC?  Evil petrochemicals?  Unless he is proposing that in future they be made of environmentally teak or mahogany, in which case I look forward to seeing him catch one in his teeth...
    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 02 03 at 12:09 PM • permalink

  2. SORRY, ‘environmentally sustainable’

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 02 03 at 12:10 PM • permalink

  3. Leave it to Tim to come up with a strategy. Do Nothing! I would become a DoNothing activist, but for my apathy.

    Posted by Latino on 2007 02 03 at 12:15 PM • permalink

  4. As well as do nothing, can they shutup as well. It’s becoming like fingernails on a chalkboard.

    Posted by BJM on 2007 02 03 at 12:43 PM • permalink

  5. ...  “Who are we to deny Greenland’s reindeer their thyme in the sun?” ... I now cannot get back to sleep.  Good one.

    Posted by Stevo on 2007 02 03 at 12:59 PM • permalink

  6. "Climate shriekers.”

    Aren’t they the critters next to the lemurs at the zoo?

    Posted by ushie on 2007 02 03 at 01:05 PM • permalink

  7. Great article, Tim. A lone, cool voice calling out in the whirling inferno of Goreite pyromaniacs.

    Posted by paco on 2007 02 03 at 02:18 PM • permalink

  8. Of course, now you’ve forfeited any chance of a lucrative career as a “AMA Certified” TV Meteorologist.

    Posted by nofixedabode on 2007 02 03 at 02:40 PM • permalink

  9. That is one guy who has no future in this business.  Is he a relative of yours?

    Posted by Mystery Meat on 2007 02 03 at 03:24 PM • permalink

  10. Bliss, Blair, sheer bliss!

    Posted by Gravelly on 2007 02 03 at 04:42 PM • permalink

  11. Which is a bit rich, coming from someone who’s spent the best part of 30 years speeding around the planet in all manner of Gaia-unfriendly Earth-eaters.

    Gaia-unfriendly Earth-eater.  I want that for a bumper sticker.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 02 03 at 05:12 PM • permalink

  12. The inconvenient truth about An Inconvenient Truth is that, far from representing the solution, it’s a contributor to the problem.

    Very neat, Mr Blair. You outdid yourself with this one. And I ditto RebeccaH; you really should open up a CafePress site and start selling your bons mots. I’d buy them, and I imagine just about everybody else who visits here would too.

    Posted by Dr Alice on 2007 02 03 at 07:40 PM • permalink

  13. Just make the site name somewhat inconspicious...I’d long have ordered one of Taranto’s “Kerfuffle” t-shirts if it wasn’t for the OpinionJournal.com tag making me look like the tool I’d probably be if I wore that.

    Posted by PW on 2007 02 03 at 08:06 PM • permalink

  14. Are the Do Nothings anything like the Know Nothings (oh for the days when the Irish were our biggest immigration problem)?

    Who are we to deny Greenland’s reindeer their thyme in the sun? And why are environmentalists so hot, so to speak, for halting the Earth’s evolution at this point in history?

    Good questions. Love the way you write, Tim.

    Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 02 03 at 08:13 PM • permalink

  15. Won’t anyone think of the Niviarsiaq flowers?

    Posted by Nic on 2007 02 03 at 08:40 PM • permalink

  16. "Who are we to deny Greenland’s reindeer their thyme in the sun?”

    It snuck up on me. Laughed loudly in front of others. Mildly embarassing.

    Great Planetary Thermostat

    Excellent! Well done Tim.

    Posted by The Apologist on 2007 02 03 at 08:42 PM • permalink

  17. I really do need glasses. For a moment there I thought I was seeing George Moonbat instead of George Monbiot.

    Posted by Spag_oz on 2007 02 03 at 10:34 PM • permalink

  18. #12: Doctor Alice is right, Tim, and the very first t-shirt should be emblazoned with Blair’s Law.

    Posted by paco on 2007 02 03 at 11:00 PM • permalink

  19. #16, I second that.

    Posted by Janice on 2007 02 04 at 12:29 AM • permalink

  20. This is my fourth try at commenting on this post.  All my brilliance keeps disappearing into the ether.  I blame Bush.

    Notice that Tim points to the hysterics actual agenda:  they want everything to stop.  Like Rousseau, they can’t stomach having to compete honestly in a dynamic world, trading their efforts with others, so everybody must stand still so they won’t have to.

    One of your best, Tim.  You and Jules keep my trust going.  I don’t know how you survive in the world in which you must operate, but I thank you for all your efforts.

    Posted by saltydog on 2007 02 04 at 12:55 AM • permalink

  21. Yay!  Fourth time’s a charm, I guess.

    Posted by saltydog on 2007 02 04 at 12:55 AM • permalink

  22. Do Nothings, or perhaps… Somnocrats? “We snooze, greenhouse gasses lose!”

    Posted by Jim Treacher on 2007 02 04 at 01:09 AM • permalink

  23. I’m with everyone else. Love your work, Tim, and when you going to get yourself some bumper stickers and tshirts?

    Salty, add Bolta and you get the trifecta.

    Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 02 04 at 04:05 AM • permalink

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