The Guardian have annouced that '2010 was the Year of the [climate] Sceptics'. But, says the Guardian, sceptics should not sleep easy in their beds; 'science' is making a comeback... By contrast, 2011 could just see the triumph of science, for two reasons. First, the...
Driving to Distraction
UK politics is taking a very spooky turn. I came across this today in the course of some research... Lords Science Committee expand Behaviour Change Inquiry to consider interventions to reduce car usage in towns and cities The House of Lords Science and Technology...
The Life of Brian – Science Messiah or Very Naughty Boy?
Brain Cox is a great science communicator. That is to say, he makes very effective TV programmes, which do not condescend, and do much to encourage an interest in science. But there is surely science as process, and there’s ‘science’ as an institution. It’s not clear...
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...
What the Greens Really Got Wrong
Read my article about Ch4's What the Green Movement Got Wrong at Spiked-Online. 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...
What? The Green Movement Got Something Wrong?!
Channel 4 will be showing “What the Green Movement Got Wrong” tonight. Tune in at 9pm... It’s too early to say much about the film -- I haven’t seen it yet -- but it appears to feature prominent environmentalist, Mark Lynas saying that environmentalists were wrong to...
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...
What Next for the Royal Society?
In May this year, the UK’s science Academy, the Royal Society, announced that it was going to publish a “new guide to the science of climate change to help the public gain a better understanding of the issue.” This announcement appeared to follow in the wake of a...
8 Executions and a Funeral
Ed Miliband -- the previous government’s Secretary of State for the Department of Energy and Climate Change -- has been elected leader of the Labour Party. Hmm. This is unusual. Not only is Miliband relatively young for someone hoping to convince the voting public...