This story was intended for Spiked-Online, who may be publishing it at some point, but I wanted to get it out a bit sooner. A new scientific study of the Earth's temperature record aimed to rescue climate science's reputation from the aftermath of the 'Climategate'...

I have no idea about the truth of a story in the Telegraph today. As usual, however, I find that the way the facts -- whatever they are -- are treated is more interesting than the reality. BBC drops Frozen Planet's climate change episode to sell show better abroad The...

Predictably, the UK's first shale gas fracking plant has become the site of 'direct action'. Once again, a small number of protesters have decided to inflict themselves on the rest of the world. The Guardian reports this morning that, Protesters from the UK's...

Something of a brouhaha is developing in the debate about the extent of subsidies for renewable energy in the UK. Green energy campaigners are complaining about a proposed cut in the Feed-In Tariff (FIT) scheme which promises owners of domestic solar PV up around...

There has been a fair amount of discussion about subsidies in the ongoing debate about energy policies recently. Damian Carrington in today's Guardian puffs up Chris Huhne's speech at the Renewable UK (formerly the British Wind Energy Association) conference: The...

There was a heated twitter exchange last night between Bob Ward, Bishop Hill, and Richard Tol. Ward predictably wanted to know 'who funds the GWPF' -- the Global Warming Policy Foundation, headed by Nigel Lawson and Benny Peiser. Ward has been making much of alleged...

I am not speaking at the Climate Fools Day, as the advertising for the event says alongside some other misleading information.

I found myself being called a 'climate sceptic' and 'denier' this week. I find this odd, because I rarely take a view on the science, which I regard as largely a massive red herring -- the climate debate is mostly political. My argument is that if you want to know...

According to Channel 4 News, An interim independent report predicts that 2,700 people will die this winter as a consequence of fuel poverty, a figure greater than the number killed in traffic accidents each year. As argued here in recent posts, fuel poverty is a...

One of the things mentioned very often here is the case of the WHO claim that 150,000 deaths throughout the world can be attributed to climate change. This figure was then upped to 300,000 by the now defunct Global Humanitarian Forum, under the stewardship of former...