Unsustain-Nobility

According to CNN, Prince Charles, who at some point in the future can look forward to inheriting the United Kingdom, has just signed a book and film deal. Yes, the Prince of Wales is Britain's answer to Al Gore. "I believe that true sustainability depends...

Beware: Health Warnings

Speaking of self-fulfilling prophecies, which we often are, Stu has a feature in today's FT magazine about the negative impacts on our health of precautionary health advice: Worried Sick What if health warnings could make us ill? Actually, they can - it's called the...

Gore Mouthing-Off About Make-Believe Madoffs

Our last post concerned the New York Times article by Andrew Revkin, about allegations of a ‘tobacco strategy’ conspiracy to distort the climate debate in the interests of energy companies. The story was used by Al Gore in testimony to congress, in which he accuses...

Know Your Times

>> UPDATE: Gore uses the flawed NYT article in his testimony to congress. READ MORE. << New York Times journalist, Andrew Revkin, generally writes thoughtfully in the paper, and on his Dot Earth blog, even if we generally disagree with him. However,...

Hogging the Climate Change Gravy Train

Nearly two years ago, we wrote a post about 'research' emerging from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, showing that fat people contribute disproportionately to climate change. True to the commandments of environmentalism - Reduce, Re-Use, Recycle -...

B*llsh*t B*ll*cks Cr*p

Some journalists are supposed to be critical of government. It is their job. Some journalists are supposed to make arguments in favour of government policy. It is their job, even if the result is bland and inconsequential. Some journalists feign 'balance' by reporting...

Psycho-Activists' Lack-of-Substance Abuse

Last month, we mentioned a conference at the University of the West of England, which set out to diagnose the debilitating condition suffered by those who fail to subscribe to the environmental orthodoxy. We suggested that it's a sure sign that environmentalism's...

Attenborough & the Descent of Man

Sir David Attenborough, the face and voice of quality BBC natural history programmes, controller of BBC2 during the 'golden age' of British television, national treasure, has become a patron of the Optimum Population Trust, the organisation that campaigns for...

Is JR Killing the Polar Bears?

'Tis the season of resurrections. And right on cue, science PR is working overtime to bring the polar-ice soap opera back from the dead. Following a disappointing summer of 2008, in which the 'worst ever' Arctic ice scenarios prophesied at the start of the year failed...

Chromatic Aberration

Two images, two different claims. Neither of them are ‘new’ as such. The first comes to us from Nathalie Rothschild, commissioning editor of Spiked-Online. It was taken during the "March Against Climate Change Chaos" in 2006. The second was taken during the UK’s 2008...