Why Do Environmentalists Hate Liberty?

Warning... This is a VERY long post! You may want to skip straight to the conclusion, labelled in bold. This blog has always been interested much more in questions about what environmentalism is, rather than in the scientific claims made by environmentalists. One...

BBC Science Broadcasters — Bubble, BS, or Cabal?

The previous post here generated a bit of Twitter twitchiness from one of the contributors to Horizon's 50th anniversary celebration -- Professor of Public Engagement in Science at the University of Birmingham and TV presenter, Alice Roberts. A somewhat partial...

The Diminished Horizons of Science Broadcasting

The BBC's flagship science programme, Horizon, is half a century old this year. To celebrate, the Beeb has put seventeen Horizon episodes from the archive online (though these may not be viewable outside the UK). The episodes have been chosen by Alice Roberts,...

IPCC: A Damp Squib

David Rose has an article in the Sunday Mail yesterday, which I provided the research for. The top article is about the dispute between Bob Ward and Professor Richard Tol. David Rose asked me to compare the WGII SPM with the chapters. I found a number of...

One Giant Bleak Against Mankind

I have an article over at Spiked, on the matter of that dodgy 'NASA-funded' end-is-nigh report. The article, by the catastrophile and author of The Crisis of Civilisation, Nafeez Ahmed, was soon picked up by dozens of other newspapers, and hundreds of websites, all...

Using NASA to scare the masses into action

An apocalyptic report touted by doom-monger Nafeez Ahmed says more about its promoters than it does about civilisation's future. A recent Guardian article stated that a ‘NASA-funded study’ had predicted that ‘industrial civilisation’ is ‘headed for irreversible...

The GWPF, Crok & Lewis, and Positioning Sceptics

As we all now know, Marcel Crok and Nicholas Lewis have written a report on the IPCC's treatment of climate sensitivity, published by the GWPF. The GWPF's press release is here, the long version of the report is here, and the short version is here. Andrew Orlowski has...

Lewandowsky Nails his Faeces to the Door

Over at Lewandowsky's lair, Shaping Tomorrow's World, the academic-psychologist-turned-propagandist has set out his values... Part of my research is considered controversial by some people because I examine why individuals choose to reject well-established scientific...

"What is New Environmentalism?" – Battle of Ideas 2013

The video of the debate at last year's Battle of Ideas festival on the question "What is new environmentalism?" is online. I'm not sure that between Mark Lynas, Joe Smith, and Casper Hewitt and me, we got to an answer. But some interesting things were discussed on the...

Missing Heat – Spiked

I have a very short (even by my standards) piece up on Spiked about the claims that the missing heat has been found: A mainstay of environmentalists’ arguments for climate policies is that science can explain the past and present temperature of the planet, and, using...