Deniers Expand

Well, with the polls showing that less and less people appear to "believe" in climate change or the human factor, despite overwhelming science, I guess I should not be surprised that Tim Gamble has joined those ranks, good and proper.

Having dropped his sustainable futures blog (a brand that covered many years) for a future forward blog that lasted a couple of months, if that. It's now gone, though he still runs the modern victory movement blog and a silverleaf strategies blog. In the short lived future forward blog, he seemed to be jettisoning the notion of sustainability, in favour of a rosy high tech future (if that blog's raison d'etre is anything to go by). On the future forward blog, he also posted an entry about a Phil Jones interview (who is at the centre of the so-called climategate situation); an entry that could have come directly from the Daily Mail (UK newspaper) and badly misrepresents what Phil Jones said. Someone with a modicum of critical thinking might have checked whether the Daily Mail story was a fair representation of the interview. See here and here for more considered thoughts on the interview.

The sustainable future brand lives on through facebook, though there are no wall entries since before Christmas. He also has his own, personal facebook page, but there's not much there that is public, concerning his thoughts on sustainability and environmental issues. There's not much at his MVM ans SS blogs, either, though he posts more frequently there (but to a very sparse audience and without a comment facility).

It's a shame. Tim did, at least, do research but it was all geared to what he either already believed or what he wanted to believe. Tim wants a sustainable high tech society, with people growing their own food in a forest garden, with a personal space port in the corner. As he's now almost a fully fledged climate denier, despite what he has occasionally claimed (I don't recall his ever posting a rebuff of the the various "optimistic" stories he's ran over the last couple of years), there seems little hope that he will fare any better than the majority of the population in seeing the converging environmental and resource problems that will likely result in collapse, without such awareness.