Another interesting disclaimer from the front cover of expensive reports commissioned by the Committee on Climate Change... This one looks at the future of wind energy in the UK. While Pöyry Energy (Oxford) Ltd (“Pöyry”) considers that the information and opinions...

While we're on the subject of making predictions... I was interested in this post by Roger Pielke Jr yesterday. Forecasting the future is fraught with difficulties.  It can be even more challenging if people pay attention to your forecasts and use them in decision...

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...

Happy new year... As you can see, we have a new site design, on a new server. Please feel free to express any thoughts about it in the comments. Anything need to be changed? Could something be better? Is it easy to navigate/read?

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...

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...

I have a story on Spiked today, about the pre-Cancun messages from the Met Office. In retrospect, I wish I'd called it "Some of our Global Warming is Missing", but I expect it's been said before. Conventional climate wisdom has it that once ‘the science’ is put before...

I've been too busy for blogging recently. To break the silence, I thought I'd post this presentation I gave at a debate at York University this time last year. The discussion was about the view often expressed by environmentalists that there is no need for any further...

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...

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...