Jeremy Grantham is very rich and very worried. According to the Sunday Times, he has donated £24million to fund climate change research - £12million each to the London School of Economics and Imperial College: Grantham believes climate change could lead to the...
Monbiot's Money Myopia
George Monbiot isn't always entirely wrong. Writing in the Guardian yesterday: Why is the Medical Research Council run by an arms manufacturer? Why is the Natural Environment Research Council run by the head of a construction company? Why is the chairman of a real...
The Great Danish Pastry Swindle
The climate conference in Copenhagen that ended this week produced a barrage of startling headlines, many of them from just one man. On Tuesday, the Guardian's junior climate alarmist, David Adam surprised us with an uncharacteristically non-doom-laden article:...
Penguins Are Killing the Polar Bears
This week has been a PR disaster for the North Pole. No sooner had scientists shown that the Antarctic really had been warming up a bit, actually, probably due to climate change and everything, than it was proved that Emperor penguins are more screwed even than the...
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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...
Munich ReDux
Further to our post on the love-in between Munich Re insurance the BBC and Professor Lord Sir Nicholas Stern... Over at Prometheus, Roger Pielke Jr presents statistics that contradict Munich Re's statements on increases in the human and economic costs of natural...
Prosperous New Fear
Before we get stuck into 2009, we missed a spillage from the festive period that needs mopping up... In a remarkably gullible news item, the BBC covered a new report revealing that 2008 was a 'Huge year for natural disasters': The past year has been one of the most...
The Climate Change Bill. Part 2 – Appealing to Authority.
Here is an exchange between Peter Lilley MP, and other members of the House of Commons on Tuesday's reading of the Climate Change Bill. Notice how Elliot Morley cites Stern and Lord Turner as authorities. It is as if Stern had no critics. The entire house of commons...
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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...
CR in TLS
We have a letter in this week's Times Literary Supplement on Bob May's translation of Nullius in Verba. It's not much different from our original post on the subject, except all the commas are in exactly the right place.Sir, – “Nullius in Verba”, the motto of the...