Letter to the Climate Shrinks

BBC Radio 4 show, Thinking Allowed had a feature on the psychoanalysts perspective on climate change this week. Bishop Hill picked up the story. Thinking Allowed is one of my favourite programmes, so I was a tad disappointed to hear that thinking isn't allowed if it's...

Hate Ethopians, Love Polar Bears

The Telegraph's resident Gaia-botherer, Louise Gray has a short piece on neoMalthusian anti-baby campaigner, David Attenborough. The television presenter said that humans are threatening their own existence and that of other species by using up the world’s resources....

The £60 Billion Government and Big Business Front-Group

Typically, cold weather such as the UK is experiencing -- an inch or so of snow that brings the country to a grinding halt -- is used as the background to stories which challenge climate change orthodoxy. The tale needs barely any retelling: the milder winters and...

Malthus's Zombie

There have been endless pastiches-upon-pastiches of the zombie movie genre in recent years. As far as I can tell, the only significant development in the basic plot is that whereas zombies were once driven by supernatural forces, the contemporary living-dead seem more...

Political Murder and Environmentalism

Jo Nova reports that  Prof Richard Parncutt, who suggested that climate change sceptics could face the death penalty for their crime, has taken down the original text of his argument and has apologised. Though I would have preferred a more convincing reflection on his...