From the pulpit at the Church of Crass Generalisations and Poorly Concealed Prejudice, Andrew Brown of the Guardian delivered these words on Tuesday: There's a first class article in Nature this week on the reasons Americans reject the science of climate change. It...
Seymour (K)Laxon Headlines
Following the previous post here about alarmist stories of Arctic ice melt, Seymour Laxon, the scientist behind the recent spate of 'Arctic melting quicker than we thought' stories, replied in the comments. Dear Ben “Paul Matthews let me know by twitter that I was...
Why facts cut no ice in the climate debate
<em>Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/debates/copenhagen_article/8057</em> The account of the climate debate that has driven most comment on it is that it is a debate between two camps: scientists on the one hand battle...
Arctic Ice Alarmism Shows No Sign of Cooling
I have an article up on Spiked today about the melting Greenland ice cover story from a few weeks back. ‘Satellites see Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt’, announced a press release on 24 July from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institution...
"It's the Stupid Economy"
According to my 'favourite' newspaper... Bill Clinton: cutting use of natural resources would help US economy Former president says US would recover faster from financial crises if more effort was made to use resources sustainably Clinton was speaking to the Re|Source...
Hoist By His Own 'Ticking Time Bomb' Petard
Barry Gardiner MP has a written an article for the Guardian, which complains that 'This government's energy policies are a timebomb'. Sometime in 2018 or shortly thereafter, the UK will experience a crisis. Electricity supply will not be enough to meet demand. When...
Government Inspectors In Your Wardrobe
The Guardian... as ever... are reporting that British consumers have an estimated £30bn worth of clothing that they have not worn for a year in their wardrobes, a new report from the government waste body Wrap reveals today. As a statistic, it may or may not be...
Rio+20: a tyranny of green do-gooders
<em>Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12599/</em> Some 50,000 delegates and 100 world leaders met at the Rio+20 ‘Earth Summit’ last month to settle on ‘the future we want’. They failed. ‘Let me be frank. Our efforts...
Loading the Dice, or Loading the Question?
Leo Hickman has collected a number of seemingly sensible statements from climate scientists about the claims that the recent unusual weather in the USA can be attributed to anthropogenic climate change. Says Leo, This week, scientists have been queuing up, it seems,...
Rio+20 = Politics Minus Democracy
I have a story on Spiked-Online today. Rio+20 was presented as an opportunity to determine ‘the future we want’ as though there was a free choice to be made. The next moment, the ugly truth was revealed: choice had been excluded. Science had detected ‘planetary...