Looking for Science in the Science Museum

I have an article up on Spiked today, about the new climate change exhibition -- Atmosphere -- at the Science Museum, London. A large wall of projected graphics greets you as you enter the London-based Science Museum’s new exhibition,Atmosphere: Exploring Climate...

Meanwhile, Back on the Climate Ward…

Bob Ward asks Why have UK media ignored climate change announcements? Yesterday's announcement that 2010 tied for the warmest year ever recorded on Earth was ignored by nearly all UK media outlets. How can this be? Many people have offered their ideas about how this...

The Immoderate Moderator: Comment is NOT Free

In the wake of the attempt made on congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' life, head of environment at the Guardian, Damien Carrington asks, I have received a handful of threats by email and phone myself, which given my low profile is a measure of the extent of the...

Independent, Invariable Alarmism

Bishop Hill points to Steve Connor in the Independent, who urges: Don't believe the hype over climate headlines Connor is complaining about the story run in the Independent a decade ago, claiming that Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past Three years of cold...

The Spy Who Nagged Me

The Guardian has a couple of articles claiming that the UK police infiltrated environmental activist organisations. Today's paper: He turned up with long hair, tattoos and an insatiable appetite for climbing trees. Few people suspected anything odd of the man who...

One Law for Tree, Another for Ewe

This is Polly Higgins, she's a barrister, and an eco-warrior. She wants there to be an international law to punish 'ecocide'. [youtube NwQ82ZQJ6Hk] This is why this is an absurd idea, in case it wasn't already obvious. Higgins idea is that ecocide is "the extensive...

Eco-Nutcases Make Bad Law

Geoff points us to a Guardian article, which he points out goes some way to demonstrating the tendency of climate-alarmists to undermine their own credibility, and to alienate themselves against the wider public. Rather like the 10:10 campaign did with the...

Disclaiming Environmentalism

Another interesting disclaimer from the front cover of expensive reports commissioned by the Committee on Climate Change... This one looks at the future of wind energy in the UK. While Pöyry Energy (Oxford) Ltd (“Pöyry”) considers that the information and opinions...

Forecasting Ambivalence

While we're on the subject of making predictions... I was interested in this post by Roger Pielke Jr yesterday. Forecasting the future is fraught with difficulties.  It can be even more challenging if people pay attention to your forecasts and use them in decision...

The Year of the Sceptic?

The Guardian have annouced that '2010 was the Year of the [climate] Sceptics'. But, says the Guardian, sceptics should not sleep easy in their beds; 'science' is making a comeback... By contrast, 2011 could just see the triumph of science, for two reasons. First, the...