I have an article up on Spiked today about the melting Greenland ice cover story from a few weeks back. ‘Satellites see Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt’, announced a press release on 24 July from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institution...

According to my 'favourite' newspaper... Bill Clinton: cutting use of natural resources would help US economy Former president says US would recover faster from financial crises if more effort was made to use resources sustainably Clinton was speaking to the Re|Source...

Barry Gardiner MP has a written an article for the Guardian, which complains that 'This government's energy policies are a timebomb'. Sometime in 2018 or shortly thereafter, the UK will experience a crisis. Electricity supply will not be enough to meet demand. When...

The Guardian... as ever... are reporting that British consumers have an estimated £30bn worth of clothing that they have not worn for a year in their wardrobes, a new report from the government waste body Wrap reveals today. As a statistic, it may or may not be...

Leo Hickman has collected a number of seemingly sensible statements from climate scientists about the claims that the recent unusual weather in the USA can be attributed to anthropogenic climate change. Says Leo, This week, scientists have been queuing up, it seems,...

I have a story on Spiked-Online today. Rio+20 was presented as an opportunity to determine ‘the future we want’ as though there was a free choice to be made. The next moment, the ugly truth was revealed: choice had been excluded. Science had detected ‘planetary...

A couple of weeks ago, I was on the panel for a debate on the motion 'Britain should be a fan of wind energy' at the Cheltenham Science Festival. John Constable of the Renewable energy Foundation was also against the motion, while arch-environmentalist Jonathan...

Back in 2010, I had a look at an Oxfam report which claimed that, According to the IPCC, climate change could halve yields from rain-fed crops in parts of Africa as early as 2020, and put 50 million more people worldwide at risk of hunger. But it was not the IPCC...

Leo Hickman has an interesting interview with James Lovelock here, and a fuller transcript of their discussion here. Given that Lovelock predicted in 2006 that by this century's end "billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in...

The last few posts have been about the application of the precautionary principle. In some green perspectives, precaution operates overtly, and arguments about risk are made explicitly. In other cases, the precautionary principle still operates, but is hidden from...