Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9986/ Conventional climate wisdom has it that once ‘the science’ is put before politics, politicians will respond to the imperative to save us from Gaia’s revenge. So each year, representatives...
What the greens really got wrong
Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9868/ Environmentalists have long claimed that their desire to save the world has been thwarted by conspiracies of Big Oil and right-wing think-tanks. Channel 4’s What the Green Movement Got...
A sideways step from climate panic to Malthus
Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/debates/copenhagen_article/9825 It has been an annus horribilis for the environmental activists and politicians who insist that the world needs to act on climate change. There was ‘Climategate’, the...
Political prejudices dressed up as science
Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/8508/ Despite the apparent central position of science in debates and policymaking around climate change, more often than not policy responses are tempered by politics first, and science second....
Let’s pick apart this politics of doom
Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/debates/copenhagen_article/8057 A sixth of the world’s population – the billion or so people who live downstream of Himalayan glaciers and depend on them for water – must surely be relieved. Just a...
Why Copenhagen was bound to fail
Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/debates/copenhagen_article/7912/ December’s Copenhagen climate summit was supposed to be the moment at which nations came together to save the planet. But the attempt to produce an international, legally...