Green-Eyed Monsters

Few ecotastrophists will be disappointed that CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has had to be shut down for at least a couple of months to fix a technical problem. Because, for a while there, the Greens' perpetual thunder about the imminent thermageddon was stolen by...

More Climate Wars

Ben has an article on Spiked-Online today, about the BBC's recent 'Climate Wars'. Iain Stewart, professor of geosciences communication at Plymouth University, introduced last week’s instalment with the words: ‘Global warming - the defining challenge of the...

Biased Broadcasting Climate

Dr. Iain Stewart's new BBC2 series Earth: The Climate Wars promised to be a 'definitive guide' to the climate debate. Instead, this week's episode 'Fightback', which focused on the sceptics was as shallow and as hollow as any old commentary. The film's blurb on BBC...