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Climate change: time for sceptics to put up or shut up
Posted by Guardian: Henry Porter on February 16th, 2014
Guardian: Say I were to ask you to prove that the dinosaurs were wiped out when an asteroid collided with the Earth 66m years ago, in what is now snappily called the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event.
If you were as weirdly obsessed by these catastrophes as I am, you would maybe start by citing the worldwide layer of sediment known as K-Pg boundary, which was first discovered near Gubbio, in Italy, and is thought to be the fallout from a massive explosion. You would mention the soot that is associated...
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United Kingdom: Forests, phone masts, roads – how our leaders scorn the countryside
Posted by Guardian: Henry Porter on November 4th, 2012
Guardian: When the Conservative MP Oliver Letwin toured his West Dorset constituency last June, he was moved to describe the landscape for his website. "As I make my way on this gloriously sunny morning, dictating this article, I am reminded of the enormous responsibility placed upon us to be good stewards of this treasure and to hand it on undefiled to succeeding generations."
Dictating, mind you, not writing. Nothing wrong in that: after all, he's a busy politician. But when you're writing, you have more...