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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...
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...
Donna Laframboise on Green NGOs & the UNFCCC
I doubt that Donna Laframboise needs much of an introduction here. She was in London recently to give evidence to the UK House of Commons Energy and Climate Change select committee, and while here, generously agreed to meet me for a quick chat about some of the things...
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These climate ‘rebels’ aren’t against the system, they’re part of it
LOOKING at the recent actions and demands of Extinction Rebellion (XR), it is easy to believe that they are the extreme wing of some fringe political movement. Distinct from the suited, booted denizens of Westminster, the XR rabble occupying the streets of SW1 and...
How much public consultation on carbon targets, Boris? Net Zero
IN HIS first session as PM in the House of Commons, Boris Johnson made two notable statements yesterday. First, he declared that the Conservative Party is the party of democracy, and that as such it will defend the result of the referendum. Second, he reaffirmed his...
The war on cheap flights
Like the feudal lords of old, greens want to tie us to small patches of land. The government announced this week that it is considering legislation to add a ‘carbon charge’ to the price of flights. Flights – especially cheap flights – have long been the enemy of...
Politics – available in any colour, so long as it’s green
The eco-signalling frenzy among the Tory candidates confirms how elitist and conformist green politics has become. The Times last week reported that three Conservative Party leadership candidates – Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove and Rory Stewart – had pledged their support...
The myth of the green wave
No, the EU elections were not a huge boost for environmentalism. The EU elections last week produced an apparent surge of support for greens across Europe. Parties from the Greens-European Free Alliance (EFA), the EU grouping the UK Green Party belongs to, increased...
The single-use plastics ban is a load of rubbish
Faced with an unprecedented crisis of legitimacy, our politicians are clutching at straws. This week, the UK government announced that from April next year, the sale of plastic straws, drink-stirrers and cotton buds will be banned. Read more at Spiked...
Austerity forever
The Net Zero climate policy would negatively impact on so much of our lives. Last week, the UK’s Committee on Climate Change (CCC) released its Net Zero report, calling for the UK to cut its CO2 emissions to ‘net zero’ by 2050. Going further than its February report...
Attenbollocks
No, those walruses did not kill themselves because of climate change. Viewers of David Attenborough’s Our Planet series on Netflix have been left distraught after it showed scenes of walruses plunging to their death. According to Attenborough and the many emotionally...
Pricing poor Londoners out of central London
Sadiq Khan’s ‘Ultra Low Emission Zone’ will make travel unaffordable to many. Next week, London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) will come into force. This will require drivers of older cars, vans and motorcycles to pay an additional £12.50 to enter the area already...
The WWF’s environmental imperialism
The world’s poorest people are being tortured and killed in the name of ‘conservation’. This month, a Buzzfeed investigation revealed that global conservation charity WWF has been funding paramilitary forces in its fight against ‘poachers’. According to Buzzfeed,...