The UK Committee on Climate Change has nothing but contempt for the public. Ask people what the UK’s biggest housing problems are, and most will tell you, rightly, that there aren’t enough homes, and that prices and rents are far too high. But UK policymakers are...

Adults should dispel children’s worst fears, not encourage them. Last week, thousands of children in the UK went on ‘strike’, bunking off school to call on the government to declare a ‘climate emergency’. The inspiration for the strike was 16-year-old Swede Greta...

Environmentalists constantly invoke the past because they are so unpopular in the present. Despite climate change often being touted as ‘the greatest challenge mankind has ever faced’, environmentalists have struggled to win over ordinary people to their cause. There...

Extinction Rebellion is fighting for a miserable, authoritarian future. Nothing says ‘take me seriously, I am here to save the planet’ quite like a fully grown man, with a full beard, dressed up as a Girl Guide. And nothing better forges a sense of solidarity with...

The IPCC report does not justify climate scaremongering. We should all be dead by now, thanks to overpopulation and resource depletion. The few of us remaining should be scavenging a landscape denuded of life by acid rains and UV rays. Thankfully, we are not. Also...

Banning plastics won’t clean up the oceans. BBC One’s Drowning in Plastic, a documentary about the problem of plastic waste in the sea, provoked a predictable flood of environmentalist emotionalism. Read more at Spiked...

Roger Pielke Jr on the dangers of eco-alarmism. At the beginning of every autumn, as we approach the peak of the hurricane season and the lowest Arctic sea-ice extent, we have to endure a deluge of media hysteria and doom-laden reports about climate change. Read more...

Why climate alarmists see all extreme weather as a portent of doom. The routine is drearily familiar. Any deviation from weather norms brings on a Biblical torrent of apocalyptic green fearmongering. And so it was with the heatwaves experienced in the Northern...

It is MPs’ nonsense war on plastic that should be thrown away. Last week, Theresa May declared an end to the ‘throwaway culture’ of waste plastic. It is ‘one of the great environmental scourges of our time’, she said, announcing the government’s ‘25-year plan to...

Eco-miserabilism suffered some welcome setbacks this year. Nothing vexed greens across the world in 2017 more than Donald Trump’s inauguration. Before Trump, climate change seemed to have been cemented into American and global political life. It was central to...