<em>Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/11888/</em> It was the latest in a long series of last chances to save the planet. Like a convention of superheroes, 14,500 politicians, civil servants, journalists and campaigners...
Not the BEST way to debate climate
<em>Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/11597/</em> In late 2009, not long before the Copenhagen climate-change conference, thousands of private emails by climate researchers based at the University of East Anglia’s...
Time to put this morality tale on ice
<em>Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/11117/</em> ‘Ice is the white flag being waved by our planet, under fire from the atmospheric attack being mounted by humanity. From the frosted plains of the Arctic ice pack to...
Admit it: environmentalism was an ugly experiment
<em>Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/reviewofbooks_preview/10914</em> Since becoming an advocate of genetic modification (GM) and nuclear power, Mark Lynas has drawn increasingly hostile criticism from his erstwhile...
Putting humanity in a kangaroo court
<em>Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10549/</em> You may not have noticed, but last week you were a co-defendant in a court case. In Stockholm, the Third Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability met at the...
Fukushima: why greens turned on each other
<em>Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10368/</em> The coverage of the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant is dominated by the discussion of ‘levels of radiation’. Run-of-the-mill catastrophes – earthquakes,...
Making mountains out of meltdowns
<em>Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10292/</em> The destruction caused by one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded, and the tsunami which followed it,were not momentous enough for much of the world’s press....
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...
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...