Driving to Distraction

UK politics is taking a very spooky turn. I came across this today in the course of some research... Lords Science Committee expand Behaviour Change Inquiry to consider interventions to reduce car usage in towns and cities The House of Lords Science and Technology...

The Life of Brian – Science Messiah or Very Naughty Boy?

Brain Cox is a great science communicator. That is to say, he makes very effective TV programmes, which do not condescend, and do much to encourage an interest in science. But there is surely science as process, and there’s ‘science’ as an institution. It’s not clear...

Cancun: scavenging around for scientific fact

Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9986/ Conventional climate wisdom has it that once ‘the science’ is put before politics, politicians will respond to the imperative to save us from Gaia’s revenge. So each year, representatives...

Cancun & the Met Office

I have a story on Spiked today, about the pre-Cancun messages from the Met Office. In retrospect, I wish I'd called it "Some of our Global Warming is Missing", but I expect it's been said before. Conventional climate wisdom has it that once ‘the science’ is put before...