The Royal Society Takes Another Step Away from Science

Back in October 2010, I wrote an article for Spiked, It is no coincidence that, as it was preparing to moderate its statements on climate change, the Society has been seeking to intervene in the debate about population. In July this year, it announced that it would be...

Green is Going Mouldy

Green ain't what it used to be. Once upon a time, all you had to do as a politician was strap yourself into a sandwichboard and proclaim that the End is Nigh, and your minions would deliver you a standing ovation and the press would celebrate you as a planet-saving...

Three Polls, Two Flops and a Polar Flip

It's been a funny old day... As mentioned in the previous post, in answer to the  launch of the UK’s National Oppostion to Windfarms (NOW), the UK's wind energy lobbying outfit, Renewable UK (formerly the British Wind Energy Association hastily arranged for a survey...

Windy Waffle

Today sees the launch of the UK's National Oppostion to Windfarms (NOW). The launch of a group of citizens, working autonomously and without support from political parties or big business is usually the sort of thing Guardian 'journalists' like to celebrate. But Leo...

The Reformation of Environmentalism – Part 2

The way in which the environmental movement splits over the issue of splitting the atom for energy is a fascinating phenomenon. I have compared this in-fighting and factionalisation -- with some poetic licence, of course -- to the Reformation of Western Christianity....

Nature Surfeit Disorder

For years, I have been an aspiring journalist and labouring under the misapprehension that the job of the journalist is to question authority, and that the worst possible trait in any journalist was credulity. Okay, I wasn't actually. But sometimes, you just have to...

How to Talk Like an Oily, Dishonest Creep

This video comes via Junkscience.com. Yuck! George Marshall, who presents the video, is from the head-shrinking school of 'climate change communication', and a campaigning colleague of Adam Corner, whose propaganda 'research' was discussed in the previous post. He...