Imminent Shortage of Stories for "New" Scientist

(Or "Global Production of Alarmist Story-Lines Past Peak" or "Gloom-Mine Reserves Increasing According to Demand" or "New Scientist in Search of Renewable Sources Of Gloomy Stories" or [INSERT OWN HEADLINE HERE]) An editorial in last week's (19 Jan) New Scientist...

Pesky Bloody Democracy

Yesterday, we had a bit of a go at a philosopher for his naughty, anti-democratic (if unconsciously so) world view when it comes to saving the planet. Well, it turns out that Marc D. Davidson ain't got nothing on David Shearman and Joseph Wayne Smith. You don't need a...

Climate Deniers Are Slaves to Democracy

On the New Scientist (which is neither) blog last week, Catherine Brahic, the rag's online environment reporter was struck by a paper published in the journal Climatic Change. Brahic summarises: Davidson claims that historical hindsight shows how preposterous the...

For Those Watching in Black and White

Climate Debate Daily is a shiny new site from the nice people who brought you Arts & Letters Daily. Dennis "A&L" Dutton, who is sceptical about the idea that the present warming trend is mostly anthropogenic, has got together with Douglas Campbell, a...

Climate Same As It Was 100 Years Ago Due To Climate Change

A wake-up call to the world from AFP... Light snow fell in Baghdad early on Friday in what weather officials said was the first time in about a 100 years. ... "These snowfalls are linked to the climate change that is happening everywhere." If this climate chaos...

The Well-Funded “Well-Funded Denial Machine” Denial Machine

One of the arguments which frequently emerge from the warmers in climate change debates is that the scientific expertise of sceptics has been bought – literally – by oil companies. We see this tired argument again wheeled out in the aftermath of the Inhofe 400 list....

People in Greenhouses Throwing Stones

We promised to provide a breakdown of the IPCC's WGI as we did for WGII and III. So here goes: As before, we've limited ourselves to those contributors based in the UK or USA. That gives us 303 authors to work with out of a total of 618. That's nearly half the total -...