For those who missed Wednesday's edition of BBC2's Newsnight, we highly recommend that you watch it: When you're asked to adapt your lifestyle to combat climate change, what goes through your head? Do you embrace the challenge, switch off the lights and reach for the...
Forecast for Satire Worse Than Previously Thought
We find ourselves temporarily elsewhere and otherwise engaged. We'll be back shortly. It has not escaped our notice that there has been a couple of interesting elections recently, and that a new report for the UK government proves beyond doubt that it's very hard to...
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...
Branding Environmentalism
Another day, another expensive advert from the environmental movement. Not Oxfam this time, but Greenpeace, who must spend a significant portion of the $hundreds of millions they make on their campaigns. [youtube J8dLHZ6jKFc] We have noted before that the...
The Blue/Green, Upside Down, Left/Right, Inside-Out, Three-Bags-Full Agenda
Leader of the UK's Conservatives, David Cameron, is at it again... Here he is, unveiling the latest installment of the 'resurrection' of the Tory Party, by announcing his continued commitment to Environmentalism, in spite of the prospect of an economic downturn, and...
The Well Funded World Wide Fund for Fear
We reported earlier in the year how claims that a 'denial lobby' had influenced public opinion on climate change were totally at odds with reality. The UK's Royal Society, for example wrote an open letter to Exxon in 2006, accusing it of funding these sceptics. The...
US Presidential Candidates in “Ties to Industry” Shock
Catherine Brahic, "New" "Scientist"'s online environment reporter continues to reflect the magazine's confusion between environmental science and environmental politics. If I didn't know better, I'd say "so much for the pulling power of oil money". Reports suggested...
The Well-Funded “Well-Funded Denial Machine” Denial Machine
One of the arguments which frequently emerge from the warmers in climate change debates is that the scientific expertise of sceptics has been bought – literally – by oil companies. We see this tired argument again wheeled out in the aftermath of the Inhofe 400 list....
The Treachery of Speeches
Surrealist politics from UK Conservative Party leader David Cameron: The issue we're discussing today, and the subject of the policy document we're publishing, is decentralised energy - again an issue on which Greenpeace has a distinguished campaigning track record....
Go Forth and Multiply
Anyone doubting that environmentalists' doomsday visions of the future owe more to religion than science should know that Greenpeace are building an ark on Mount Ararat. No, really.