I've been busy elsewhere... Work... Moving city/home, and going on holiday. Hence, no posts recently.  I've some catching up to do. Full service will be resumed in the New Year.  If environmentalism is a religion, it needs its religious festivals. The problem for...

One of the most persistent and peculiar ideas that has been given life by environmental thinking is its conception of 'efficiency'. Environmentalists like to believe that nobody has ever thought of efficiency before, and that it cannot be found without them. One...

I've been a bit busy for blogging lately. It happens. One of the things I've been working on is this film produced for the EFD group, starring UKIP chairman, Steve Crowther. The Lost Horizons website is here. One of the criticisms that the film got elsewhere (amongst...

I usually try to avoid looking at the seriously nutty end of environmentalism. Paul Kingsnorth's 'Dark Mountain Project' is one such collection of madness. The stories which any culture tells itself about its origins and values determine its direction and destination....

I have an article up on Spiked today about the emptiness of contemporary political grandstanding... In his speech to the Labour Party Conference earlier this month, leader Ed Miliband declared he was going to ‘do something different today’, to ‘tell you my story. I...

The 50th anniversary of Rachel Carsen's book, Silent Spring has produced a lot of discussion on the internet. Much of this has been rehearsed, ad nauseum. But 50 years is an opportunity to reflect on the failure of environmentalists past and present to successfully...

One of the more blunt points made on this blog from time-to-time is that mediocrity explains a substantial part of environmentalism's ascendency. It is a rot within public institutions of all kinds that can explain their greenish hue. To take one recent example, the...

This is a guest post by Geoff Chambers and Alex Cull. “Ten Billion”, described as  “a new kind of scientific lecture” by scientist Stephen Emmott and director Katie Mitchell played at the Royal Court theatre in London for three weeks in July and August, and at the...

From the pulpit at the Church of Crass Generalisations and Poorly Concealed Prejudice, Andrew Brown of the Guardian delivered these words on Tuesday: There's a first class article in Nature this week on the reasons Americans reject the science of climate change. It...

Following the previous post here about alarmist stories of Arctic ice melt, Seymour Laxon, the scientist behind the recent spate of 'Arctic melting quicker than we thought' stories, replied in the comments. Dear Ben “Paul Matthews let me know by twitter that I was...