Environmentalism & Freedom

Often, environmentalist's sense of triumph belies their actual intellectual reach. George Monbiot calls himself the winner of a debate with director of the Institute of Ideas, Claire Fox, Last week, on an internet radio channel called The Fifth Column, I debated...

The delusions of the climate technocrats

<em>Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/11888/</em> It was the latest in a long series of last chances to save the planet. Like a convention of superheroes, 14,500 politicians, civil servants, journalists and campaigners...

Climate Technocrats at Durban

I have a story up on Spiked today... It was the latest in a long series of last chances to save the planet. Like a convention of superheroes, 14,500 politicians, civil servants, journalists and campaigners from development and environmental NGOs descended on Durban,...

The Art of the Possible… And the Impossible

I'm so bored... BORED... of climate change. Environmentalism is such a boring, boring, boring thing. It's mundane. It's banal. It obsesses about the minutiae of biological functioning only to the extent that it wants to limit the possibilities of human life, rather...

The Polar Bear Affair. Part 1001.

The BBC's Frozen Planet is continuing to fuel controversy. First, as discussed previously on this blog, the BBC's decision to sell the seventh episode of the series -- David Attenborough's personal view of climate change and the crysophere -- as an option led to...

Thoughts on Climategate r1

I thought it might be worthwhile posting this presentation I gave in Edinburgh in Spring last year, following the first Climategate. It seems to me that the same is true of Climategate 2 as was true of the first: if there had been a more transparent debate,...