The Bush administration's unorthodox stance on climate change and stem-cell research led to widespread accusations that it conducted a war on science. The Democrats' response has been to promise to 'let science guide us, not ideology', to 'make scientific decisions...
Ragin' Roberts
Over at Gristmill, the angry David Roberts gets his knickers in a twist about an email list: Barnes gets his information on climate change the same place everyone in the right-wing media world gets it: from Marc Morano, the in-house blogger/agitator for Sen. James...
Cut and Paste Journalism
BBC bosses today tried to make excuses for the cut-and-paste job by BBC science journalist, Susan Watts, as discovered by Tony at Harmless Sky recently. Answering criticism on Watts' blog, Newsnight Editor Peter Rippon said: We did edit sections of the speech to...
Infinite Regress
In a recent post, we looked at some of Green MEP Caroline Lucas's arguments for action on climate change. One of them has stuck with us as especially absurd, and merits further attention: this planet has finite resources. You cannot go on growing indefinitely on a...
Who'd've Discredited It?
'Case against climate change discredited by study' shrieked the Independent yesterday. That must be one hell of a study. Except that it isn't: A difference in the way British and American ships measured the temperature of the ocean during the 1940s may explain why the...
Ethics? What Ethics?
Ben has a review of James Garvey's The Ethics of Climate Change: right and wrong in a changing world over at Culture Wars: Few arguments in favour of action to mitigate the effects of climate change begin without claiming that ‘the science is in’. James Garvey’s The...
'Science' – Environmentalism's Fig Leaf
On The Nation blog, David Roberts of Gristmill (another blog) writes: Long-time greens are painfully aware that the arguments of global warming skeptics are like zombies in a '70s B movie. They get shot, stabbed, and crushed, over and over again, but they just keep...