Climate Scepticism… According to Environmentalists

Just a week will have passed between the broadcasting of Paul Nurse's film about climate change sceptics' alleged 'attack on science' and the BBC's next film about... climate change sceptics. Meet the Climate Sceptics NEXT ON: Today, 22:00 on BBC Four Filmmaker Rupert...

Nursing Climate Science's Bruises

This post was intended for Spiked-Online. They may print it next week, but I wanted to get it out there sooner. Sir Paul Nurse, the new president of the Royal Society, has followed his predecessors, Martin Rees and Bob May, by making a loud public statement about the...

"Putting the Politics of Hope Above the Politics of Fear"

If environmentalism does nothing else, it forces you to stop and wonder, do words still mean anything? When the Green Party's Caroline Lucas was elected to Parliament earlier this year, she made the following speech, with these words for her voters: Thank you so much...

Alarmists Caught Off-Guard(ian)

It's a Guardian headline that might cause you to think its journalists were taking a good look at themselves, Online news service promotes false climate change study But Suzanne Goldenberg is pointing her fingers elsewhere. An online news service sponsored by the...

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A tedious dollop of eco‑propaganda

Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10095/ A large wall of projected graphics greets you as you enter the London-based Science Museum’s new exhibition,Atmosphere: Exploring Climate Science. Disembodied voices read the words that...

Looking for Science in the Science Museum

I have an article up on Spiked today, about the new climate change exhibition -- Atmosphere -- at the Science Museum, London. A large wall of projected graphics greets you as you enter the London-based Science Museum’s new exhibition,Atmosphere: Exploring Climate...

Meanwhile, Back on the Climate Ward…

Bob Ward asks Why have UK media ignored climate change announcements? Yesterday's announcement that 2010 tied for the warmest year ever recorded on Earth was ignored by nearly all UK media outlets. How can this be? Many people have offered their ideas about how this...

The Immoderate Moderator: Comment is NOT Free

In the wake of the attempt made on congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' life, head of environment at the Guardian, Damien Carrington asks, I have received a handful of threats by email and phone myself, which given my low profile is a measure of the extent of the...

Independent, Invariable Alarmism

Bishop Hill points to Steve Connor in the Independent, who urges: Don't believe the hype over climate headlines Connor is complaining about the story run in the Independent a decade ago, claiming that Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past Three years of cold...