Tipping Point for the Climate Porn Industry

Headlines don't get much more alarmist than this... As Tory Outcast points out, the story that the Independent Newspaper thinks a catastrophe is in fact far more mundane: The article by Tony Patterson tells the story of two commercial vessels which have managed to...

May, the Farce be With You

We haven't mentioned Bob May for a while. Here he is, talking to BBC R4's World at One presenter Martha Kearney today about... oh, you know, everything. [Listen again - UK Only] MK: The issue of climate change is being addressed tonight by the president of the British...

Psycho-Activists' Lack-of-Substance Abuse

Last month, we mentioned a conference at the University of the West of England, which set out to diagnose the debilitating condition suffered by those who fail to subscribe to the environmental orthodoxy. We suggested that it's a sure sign that environmentalism's...

The Psychology of the Psychology of Denial

Last week, we mentioned an academic conference at the University of the West of England about the psychology of climate change denial, which appeared to be rather lacking on the academic front. It was a gathering of a handful of higher beings - Jungian analysts,...

Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree

This weekend, the University of the West of England's Centre for Psycho-Social Studies is holding a conference on 'The Psychological and Political Challenge of Facing Climate Change'. According to conference organiser Professor Paul Hoggett: "We will examine [climate...

Let Them Eat Shrubbery

Science is often at its most newsworthy when it proves the blatantly obvious: getting drunk makes you more likely to fall over; sunbathing is a risk factor for sunburn, etc. But science that 'proves' something that journalists, commentators and policy bods like to...

The Greens and the Bell-Curve

A little article on the Times website caught our eye. Cleverer children are more likely to vote for the Green Party or the Liberal Democrats in a general election than other parties when they become adults, research suggests. The study, by the University of Edinburgh...

On the Horizon

1) Battle of Ideas, 1-2 November, Royal College of Art, London If last year's event is anything to go by, it will be very good indeed. Here's Professor Mike Hulme, School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and founding Director...

We Have Ways of Making You Walk

Recently, we have discussed how Green is the colour of reinventing yourself, to make your washed out perspective seem fresh and relevant to today's world. Gay rights activist and Green Party Parliamentary Candidate, Peter Tatchell, clothes himself in alarmist...

Environ Mental Ism

We've mentioned before how those of an Environmentalist bent are liable to blame the perceived failings of anybody who disagrees with them on some sort of mental illness. There's Andreas Ernst, for example, the scientist who says that the psychology of sceptics is...