It's often hard to have a discussion about the climate change debate without recourse to language about 'sides'. We are certainly not the only ones to have argued that the conventional portrayal of the debate as a polarised one between warmers/alarmists and...
The Conspiracy-Theory Conspiracy Theory
Our previous post, and one the week before looked at the arguments emerging from climate activists about what to make of the existence of an email news circular, operated by Marc Morano, the Communications Director at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee,...
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...
Smoking Out Unreasonable Certainty
In conversations with our exasperated green friends, we are often asked what we would accept as 'proof' that global warming ‘is real, and is happening'. This is a fairly typical misunderstanding of the sceptical position. Well, ours anyway. We do not argue that humans...
90 Minutes of TV; 16 Months of Handwaving…
...and counting... Every day in the UK, £millions are spent on making sure that national and local government departments do not produce too much CO2. Business, schools and hospitals have to make sure they are complying with regulations that require them to reduce...