Making mountains out of meltdowns
<em>Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10292/</em> The destruction caused by one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded, and the tsunami which followed it,were not momentous enough for much of the world’s press....
Scepticism is not an ‘attack on science’
Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10148/ Sir Paul Nurse, the new president of the Royal Society, hasfollowed his predecessors, Martin Rees and Bob May, by making a loud public statement about the climate debate. Nurse claimed in a...
A tedious dollop of eco‑propaganda
Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10095/ A large wall of projected graphics greets you as you enter the London-based Science Museum’s new exhibition,Atmosphere: Exploring Climate Science. Disembodied voices read the words that...
Cancun: scavenging around for scientific fact
Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9986/ Conventional climate wisdom has it that once ‘the science’ is put before politics, politicians will respond to the imperative to save us from Gaia’s revenge. So each year, representatives...
What the greens really got wrong
Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9868/ Environmentalists have long claimed that their desire to save the world has been thwarted by conspiracies of Big Oil and right-wing think-tanks. Channel 4’s What the Green Movement Got...
A sideways step from climate panic to Malthus
Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/debates/copenhagen_article/9825 It has been an annus horribilis for the environmental activists and politicians who insist that the world needs to act on climate change. There was ‘Climategate’, the...
Political prejudices dressed up as science
Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/8508/ Despite the apparent central position of science in debates and policymaking around climate change, more often than not policy responses are tempered by politics first, and science second....
Let’s pick apart this politics of doom
Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/debates/copenhagen_article/8057 A sixth of the world’s population – the billion or so people who live downstream of Himalayan glaciers and depend on them for water – must surely be relieved. Just a...
Why Copenhagen was bound to fail
Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/debates/copenhagen_article/7912/ December’s Copenhagen climate summit was supposed to be the moment at which nations came together to save the planet. But the attempt to produce an international, legally...
Greenpeace: putting trees before people
At the end of last month, the Guardian’s environment correspondent, David Adam, reported from Brazil on Greenpeace’s allegation that illegal deforestation in the Amazon Basin was linked to a number of giant UK food firms. But were Greenpeace’s claims all that they...