We haven't mentioned Bob May for a while. Here he is, talking to BBC R4's World at One presenter Martha Kearney today about... oh, you know, everything. [Listen again - UK Only] MK: The issue of climate change is being addressed tonight by the president of the British...
Genetically Modified Climate 'Science'
Someone else who isn't entirely wrong this week is Lord Bob May of Oxford. It's quite refreshing to hear the former Royal Society president and government chief-scientific adviser having a go at Big Environment for a change instead of Big Oil: Parts of the green...
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At the risk of getting all Exxon-Secrets 'on yo asses'... Thanks to the reader who let us know about Bob Ward's latest career move. Ward, if you remember, left his post of director of communications at the Royal Society to join global risk analysis firm RMS as...
80% and the Climate Change Aristocracy
The Independent newspaper announced yesterday that The UK should cut its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 per cent by mid-century, the Government's climate change committee recommended today. The committee said a more stringent target than the 60 per cent cut...
Identity Crisis Politics
According to commentisfree, Ewa Jasiewicz is a writer, journalist, human rights activist and union organiser. In a recent post to the site, she identifies a split in the environmental movement between those who aim to stop climate change through ‘the system’, so to...
90 Minutes of TV; 16 Months of Handwaving…
...and counting... Every day in the UK, £millions are spent on making sure that national and local government departments do not produce too much CO2. Business, schools and hospitals have to make sure they are complying with regulations that require them to reduce...
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Sir Nicholas Stern, author of the famous Stern Report, which underpins many an argument in favour of climate change mitigation, is behind a 'carbon credit reference agency' launched today. “If we are to attract the levels of finance necessary to make this a mainstream...
The Royal Society: From Science to Fiction
Eco-activist Mark Lynas, has won the Royal Society's prize for popular science writing, for his book, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet. Except that it isn't science, it's fiction. Science fiction; it takes a vaguely plausible scientific possibility,...
Fat People are Killing the Butterflies
Steve Connor, science editor at the Independent newspaper warns us that Tropical insects rather than polar bears could be among the first species to become extinct as a result of global warming, a study has found. What does that even mean? Are the polar bears OK...
The AGW Debate Descends to ‘Science’
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) issued a statement last month, outlining its position on global warming... The Earth's climate is now clearly out of balance and is warming. Many components of the climate system—including the temperatures of the atmosphere, land...