This essay was written for Spiked-Online, and will be published on Spiked at some point. As the influence of environmental thinking has increased its hold over the political establishment, the failure to win the public support that might create the basis for decisive...

Opinions in the climate debate are typically given weight according to the qualification of the pundit to speak. One such victim of this idea that only the anointed may speak on matters climate-related for instance, asks "Ben Pile: Qualified Pundit or Bullshit...

The death of Margaret Thatcher has brought all sorts of history back under the microscope. But often, such retrospectives become revision, revealing much more about the viewer in the present than the facts of the past. Much of this is less than dignified. Thatcher's...

Environmental activism is most noted for 'direct action' -- behaviour that has two fundamental characteristics. 1. It is highly visible. 2. It is disruptive to the operations of some activity or other. Direct action is necessary, I have argued, because the...

A few weeks back, I took a look at the Friends of the Earth campaign that links Samsung to environmental destruction in Indonesia. FoE wanted to mobilise public opinion, using the standard method of generating consumer guilt with shocking images of poor people and...

As pointed out over at Bishop Hill, Nigel Lawson was the subject of some comments made by Royal Society president, Paul Nurse at his lecture at the University of Melbourne recently. I have written a lot about the Royal Society, its campaigns, and the angry and...

He is better known for his work on population, but neomalthusian, Paul Ehrlich is listed as an author on a new paper, the abstract of which reads as follows, Government policies are needed when people’s behaviors fail to deliver the public good. Those policies will be...

Ed Davey made some revealing comments at his presentation at the Royal Society this week. James Delingpole has given Davey's words the treatment they probably deserve, pointing out that the Royal Society has 'jumped the shark'. Says Dellers, The Royal Society –...

Bloomberg are reporting that Wind is now cheaper than fossil fuels in producing electricity in Australia, the world’s biggest coal exporter, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. What amazing news! So someone must have developed some amazing new technology!...

Readers will no doubt remember climate change psychologist, Stephan Lewandowsky and his attempt to connect climate change denial and scepticism to conspiracy theories. Lewandowsky et al's paper, 'NASA faked the moon landing|Therefore (Climate) Science is a Hoax: An...