Paul Ehrlich once famously remarked, Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun. A point noted here often is that although environmentalists claim that their perspective is grounded in science, their desire for...

The Guardian has quoted Royal Society President, Paul Nurse's outburst: He urged researchers to forge relationships with politicians, lobbyists, religious figures and leaders of organisations in the hope that they might feel ashamed to misuse scientific evidence. But...

Imagine that you are a journalist -- it's not hard to do -- in need of some information about climate change. Where would you turn to first? You might start with the UK's allegedly independent Committee on Climate Change, they are charged by the Climate Change Act...

The last post here noted that there was more than coincidence to environmentalism's ascendency and the decline of the press. The broader point made here is that mediocrity seems to infect many public institutions, who in turn seem to resort to environmentalism. It's...

This blog has long argued that one of the forces driving environmentalism's ascendency is mediocrity, especially in the press. Green-inkers fancy themselves in some kind of war with sceptics or deniers of what they imagine to be the 'reality of climate change'. But in...

A popular notion that has driven a lot of thinking on 'green energy' is that the entire world's demand for energy is equivalent to (or can be met by) the amount of sunlight falling on a relatively small area of land. For instance, this image has done the rounds...

It's been nearly a year since this blog last took a look at Monbiot's thinking. He used to be a favourite, epitomising the green movement's excesses in each of his Guardian stories. But as useful as it is to see what goes on in the fantasy world that environmentalists...

Warning... This is a VERY long post! You may want to skip straight to the conclusion, labelled in bold. This blog has always been interested much more in questions about what environmentalism is, rather than in the scientific claims made by environmentalists. One...

The previous post here generated a bit of Twitter twitchiness from one of the contributors to Horizon's 50th anniversary celebration -- Professor of Public Engagement in Science at the University of Birmingham and TV presenter, Alice Roberts. A somewhat partial...

The BBC's flagship science programme, Horizon, is half a century old this year. To celebrate, the Beeb has put seventeen Horizon episodes from the archive online (though these may not be viewable outside the UK). The episodes have been chosen by Alice Roberts,...