Ben (C-R editor) gave a presentation at York University last week, in a debate organised by the Freedom Association, alongside Professor David Bellamy and Richard S. Courtney, and opposite Stephen Hockman QC (who intends to establish an international climate change...
Global Warming's Pause For Thought
Stu has an article up on Spiked about the reaction to Paul Hudson's BBC article 'What Happened to Global Warming?': A BBC News journalist's willingness to report more than climate orthodoxy should be encouraged not condemned... While we're on the subject, it's strange...
Gordon Browns His Trousers and Goes Green
When Gordon Brown spoke of 'catastrophe' yesterday, he wasn't talking about his premiership or worrying about the UK under a Tory government. Brown has always been rather quiet on climate change. His government hasn't, but he has. We've always had the impression that...
Newsnight of the Living Dead
For those who missed Wednesday's edition of BBC2's Newsnight, we highly recommend that you watch it: When you're asked to adapt your lifestyle to combat climate change, what goes through your head? Do you embrace the challenge, switch off the lights and reach for the...
In the Pipeline
Just a quickie to say that we're still here, and to flag up the Battle of Ideas festival at the Royal College of Art, London, 31 Oct/1 Nov. Ben will be speaking at the session Solving the Energy Crisis: all about lightbulbs and lifestyle? where he'll share the mic...
Eco-Humanism?
At New Matilda, Sarah Burnside argues that: The simplest and most compelling argument for addressing climate change is humanist in nature. As human beings, we must take seriously our need to care for each other, whether at the specific level of provision of universal...
NGOligarchy
The BBC reports that... Eight of the UK's leading environmental groups have joined forces to urge political parties to adopt a joint approach on green issues. These eight are the usual suspects - Green Alliance, Friends of the Earth, the Woodland Trust, WWF, the...
Iceberg Stories Are a Wet Lettuce
In the Guardian yesterday, the paper's US Environmental correspondent, Suzanne Goldenberg writes: The world's ocean surfaces had their warmest summer temperatures on record, the US national climatic data centre said today. Climate change has been steadily raising the...
Future-Present Imperfect Imperative, Part 2
Further to this post, a reader has sent us an ingenious example of a novel linguistic construction that attempts to escape the constraints of the English language in order to give the impression that tentative predictions of the future are happening now: "The fact is...
Has Climate Porn Already Tipped?
At the BBC's Earth Watch blog, Richard Black takes a different perspective on the recent survey of the British public (well, 500 of them, anyway) and Climate Porn that we covered in our last post. Among the emails that arrive in my inbox regularly on climate change,...