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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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