A few weeks back, I took a look at the Friends of the Earth campaign that links Samsung to environmental destruction in Indonesia. FoE wanted to mobilise public opinion, using the standard method of generating consumer guilt with shocking images of poor people and...

As pointed out over at Bishop Hill, Nigel Lawson was the subject of some comments made by Royal Society president, Paul Nurse at his lecture at the University of Melbourne recently. I have written a lot about the Royal Society, its campaigns, and the angry and...

He is better known for his work on population, but neomalthusian, Paul Ehrlich is listed as an author on a new paper, the abstract of which reads as follows, Government policies are needed when people’s behaviors fail to deliver the public good. Those policies will be...

Ed Davey made some revealing comments at his presentation at the Royal Society this week. James Delingpole has given Davey's words the treatment they probably deserve, pointing out that the Royal Society has 'jumped the shark'. Says Dellers, The Royal Society –...

Bloomberg are reporting that Wind is now cheaper than fossil fuels in producing electricity in Australia, the world’s biggest coal exporter, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. What amazing news! So someone must have developed some amazing new technology!...

Readers will no doubt remember climate change psychologist, Stephan Lewandowsky and his attempt to connect climate change denial and scepticism to conspiracy theories. Lewandowsky et al's paper, 'NASA faked the moon landing|Therefore (Climate) Science is a Hoax: An...

It should be clear to everyone by now that environmentalists have no sense of proportion. For instance, on the green view, the claim that 'climate change is happening' has been a matter of true or false, rather than a matter of degree. But is this misconception the...

BBC Radio 4 show, Thinking Allowed had a feature on the psychoanalysts perspective on climate change this week. Bishop Hill picked up the story. Thinking Allowed is one of my favourite programmes, so I was a tad disappointed to hear that thinking isn't allowed if it's...

The Telegraph's resident Gaia-botherer, Louise Gray has a short piece on neoMalthusian anti-baby campaigner, David Attenborough. The television presenter said that humans are threatening their own existence and that of other species by using up the world’s resources....

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...