‘The real enemy is humanity itself’

<em>Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12456/</em> Forty years ago, two ideas about humanity’s relationship with the natural world caught the imagination of the richest and most influential people. The first was that...

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Greens, face it: we’re just not that into you

<em>Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12163/</em> When internal documents from a libertarian think tank – the Heartland Institute, known for its sceptical views on climate change – were published on the internet...

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Climate-change alarmism: fuelled by fantasy

<em>Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12113/</em> A study published in Nature last week has found that the effects of climate change on Himalayan glaciers have been overstated. But rather than facing up to their...

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Greens to sceptics: show us the money!

Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12005/ The first question asked about anyone making a non-conforming argument in the climate debate is ‘who funds them?’ And so it is with the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) - a...

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The delusions of the climate technocrats

<em>Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/11888/</em> It was the latest in a long series of last chances to save the planet. Like a convention of superheroes, 14,500 politicians, civil servants, journalists and campaigners...

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Not the BEST way to debate climate

<em>Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/11597/</em> In late 2009, not long before the Copenhagen climate-change conference, thousands of private emails by climate researchers based at the University of East Anglia’s...

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Time to put this morality tale on ice

<em>Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/11117/</em> ‘Ice is the white flag being waved by our planet, under fire from the atmospheric attack being mounted by humanity. From the frosted plains of the Arctic ice pack to...

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Admit it: environmentalism was an ugly experiment

<em>Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/reviewofbooks_preview/10914</em> Since becoming an advocate of genetic modification (GM) and nuclear power, Mark Lynas has drawn increasingly hostile criticism from his erstwhile...

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Putting humanity in a kangaroo court

<em>Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10549/</em> You may not have noticed, but last week you were a co-defendant in a court case. In Stockholm, the Third Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability met at the...

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Fukushima: why greens turned on each other

<em>Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10368/</em> The coverage of the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant is dominated by the discussion of ‘levels of radiation’. Run-of-the-mill catastrophes – earthquakes,...

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