In an astonishing display of group hypocrisy, a mob of celebs, each with a carbon footprint the size of a small city, have called for a suspension of moves to develop a UK shale industry. Alongside them are names such as Nobel Laureate Sir Harry Kroto, greens like George Monbiot, crony capitalists like Jeremy Leggett, and ecoactivitst groups like Friends of the Earth and the RSPB.
Their letter claims that
...there is substantial evidence that fracking causes water stress and risks water contamination and soil contamination, earth tremors - and is a threat to human, wildlife, bird, fish and livestock health.
I think it's pretty amazing that they managed to get a Nobel laureate to sign up to a statement like that. Even the Green party doesn't try to make such claims, which are right up there alongside visitations from the afterlife as viable scientific hypotheses.
Nobel laureates aren't what they used to be it seems.