Poor old Mark Lynas, author of Six Degrees: our future on a hotter planet, who once thrust custard pies into the faces of people who dared to question environmental orthodoxies. He now finds himself on the receiving end of eco-dogma. Fancy that. Just a month ago I had...
Green-Eyed Monsters
Few ecotastrophists will be disappointed that CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has had to be shut down for at least a couple of months to fix a technical problem. Because, for a while there, the Greens' perpetual thunder about the imminent thermageddon was stolen by...
More Climate Wars
Ben has an article on Spiked-Online today, about the BBC's recent 'Climate Wars'. Iain Stewart, professor of geosciences communication at Plymouth University, introduced last week’s instalment with the words: ‘Global warming - the defining challenge of the...
Fat Polar Bears Are Killing The Polar Bears
Last July, we reported that Fat People Are Killing the Polar Bears. In November we reported that Fat Swedish Men Are Killing the Polar Bears. In April we reported that Fat Polar Bears are Killing the Penguins. In May we reported that Fat People are Killing the...
Biased Broadcasting Climate
Dr. Iain Stewart's new BBC2 series Earth: The Climate Wars promised to be a 'definitive guide' to the climate debate. Instead, this week's episode 'Fightback', which focused on the sceptics was as shallow and as hollow as any old commentary. The film's blurb on BBC...
On the Horizon
1) Battle of Ideas, 1-2 November, Royal College of Art, London If last year's event is anything to go by, it will be very good indeed. Here's Professor Mike Hulme, School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and founding Director...
All the World's a Cage
According to World Water Council's director-general Ger Bergkamp, Australia is 'the metaphorical canary down the coalmine when it comes to climate change': In Australia, what was projected to be here in 20 years from now, in terms of the drought, is already here as we...
The Queen of the Greens
Ben has an article in today's Spiked on our favourite Green, Caroline Lucas, who was elected as the Party's leader last Friday. The UK Green Party – formally the Ecology Party (1975-1985), formally PEOPLE (1973-1975) – once rejected the conventional party structure...
The Silly-Season’s Soap-Opera Ice-Storm in a Tea-Pot
Explorer Lewis Pugh, self-proclaimed 'Voice of the Arctic' took a break from cold-water swimming to try to become the first person to kayak to the North Pole to raise awareness of himself the shrinking Arctic ice mass: There is one side of me that really hopes I can...
First Against the Wall When the Revolution Doesn't Happen…
The Green Party's other principal speaker is Derek Wall. The party have been unable to decide on a leader over the years (they're choosing one right at the moment), and so have had two: Caroline Lucas and Derek Wall - one for girls, and one for boys. No, we're not...