British Ponds for British Dragonflies

Any article that includes the line The dragonfly family has more species than any other mammal has got to be worth a closer look. And this one, from Saturday's Guardian, doesn't disappoint. Dragonflies in danger of extinction seek sanctuary at new rescue centre...

The 'Green Energy Revolution': Spinning Failure as Success

The UK government recently gave its 'low carbon transition plan' an airing. At the launch of the plan, the unelected Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills who has been forced, twice, to resign from previous roles within the government for his...

Make Us Let You Eat Less Cake

We've flagged up Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband's relationship with climate activists before. When he's not snuggling up to Franny 'Age of Stupid' Armstrong, he's egging on airport protesters and comparing them to past popular movements: When you...

The Lady Doth Protest too Much…

After a 20-year-long role at the BBC, Peter Sissons has attacked the anti-journalistic culture at the BBC. Writing in the Mail on Sunday (the article has been taken off-line for some reason), Sissons outlines some key reasons for his decision to leave. This bit caught...

Astroturfers and Space Cadets

Poor George Monbiot is even miserabler than usual: On the Guardian's environment site in particular, and to a lesser extent on threads across the Guardian's output, considered discussion is being drowned in a tide of vituperative gibberish. A few hundred commenters...

Ho Ho Ho Green Giantz

Thanks to George Carty for pointing us to the Energy From Thorium Discussion Forum, where someone named Klaus Allmendinger has spotted something strange in the small print of a new report from WWF and Allianz insurance that claims to rank G8 countries in terms of...

Science-Based Catchphrase-Making

The Bush administration's unorthodox stance on climate change and stem-cell research led to widespread accusations that it conducted a war on science. The Democrats' response has been to promise to 'let science guide us, not ideology', to 'make scientific decisions...

A Big Fuss About Small Change

Bob Ward is at it again. In an article for the Guardian, he writes that - shock, horror - ExxonMobil continues to fund organisations he disagrees with, even though he has told them not to. A few weeks ago, ExxonMobil revealed that it made contributions in 2008 to...