The Astro Turf is Always Browner on the Other Side…

George Mon-and-on-and-on-and-on-and-on-and-on-and-on-and-on-biot is convinced that 'astroturfing' outfits are influencing on-line discussion. The tobacco industry does it, the US Air Force clearly wants to ... astroturfing – the use of sophisticated software to drown...

Eco-Orthodoxy

Bishop Hill points to a paper by Ross McKitrick. The Bishop himself points to the following passage, a thought experiment in which an Intergovernmental Panel on Economics, analogous to the IPCC is imagined. Suppose the International Monetary Fund (IMF) created an...

Scepticism is not an ‘attack on science’

Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10148/ Sir Paul Nurse, the new president of the Royal Society, hasfollowed his predecessors, Martin Rees and Bob May, by making a loud public statement about the climate debate. Nurse claimed in a...

Mythologising Monckton

There is only one climate sceptic in the world. His name is Christopher Monckton. This is the only conclusion you could draw from Rupert Murray's film, Meet the Climate Sceptics,  broadcast on BBC4 tonight. The film portrays Monckton single-handedly attacking the...