The way in which the environmental movement splits over the issue of splitting the atom for energy is a fascinating phenomenon. I have compared this in-fighting and factionalisation -- with some poetic licence, of course -- to the Reformation of Western Christianity....

For years, I have been an aspiring journalist and labouring under the misapprehension that the job of the journalist is to question authority, and that the worst possible trait in any journalist was credulity. Okay, I wasn't actually. But sometimes, you just have to...

This video comes via Junkscience.com. Yuck! George Marshall, who presents the video, is from the head-shrinking school of 'climate change communication', and a campaigning colleague of Adam Corner, whose propaganda 'research' was discussed in the previous post. He...

My last post here discussed the belief held by Met Office senior scientist, Vicky Pope, that climate change is a matter of 'evidence, not belief'. It turned out that, in spite of evidence, one of the most vilified climate change sceptics and the public at large had a...

Bishop Hill has an interesting comparison of two perspectives on the climate debate. In his Radio 5 interview, James Delingpole correctly framed the argument over AGW as being over (a) how large the effect is (b) how much warming there will be and (c) how much of a...

I've been busy with other things the last three weeks. Sorry for the lack of posts. I will be back to blogging form next week.

A Guardian editorial speaks 'In Praise of Plunge'... The arts have a patchy record on the subject of climate change. Greenland at the National Theatre was a play about environmental disaster that was little short of a disaster itself. The temptation is often strong to...

I've got myself into trouble recently, for using words like 'idiot' too often. Especially on twitter. Here's my favourite: #Moronbiot Am I reaching the end of my vocabulary? James Delingpole seems equally frustrated. He's written about "Why I am so Rude to Warmists"...

I have a post up on Spiked about Fakegate. One of the endlessly recurring themes of the environmental narrative is – in the words of the man at the centre of the ‘Fakegate’ mess, water and climate researcher Peter Gleick – that an ‘anonymous, well-funded, and...

James Murray is the editor of BusinessGreen.com . Here are his tweets about the Heartland document leak. The faux-outrage of the ecological righteous about this is amazing, given that they can't actually say what the Heartland Documents reveal which isn't applicable...