Typically, cold weather such as the UK is experiencing -- an inch or so of snow that brings the country to a grinding halt -- is used as the background to stories which challenge climate change orthodoxy. The tale needs barely any retelling: the milder winters and...

There have been endless pastiches-upon-pastiches of the zombie movie genre in recent years. As far as I can tell, the only significant development in the basic plot is that whereas zombies were once driven by supernatural forces, the contemporary living-dead seem more...

Jo Nova reports that  Prof Richard Parncutt, who suggested that climate change sceptics could face the death penalty for their crime, has taken down the original text of his argument and has apologised. Though I would have preferred a more convincing reflection on his...