Over at Spiked-Online, I've reviewed The God Species: how the planet can survive the age of humans, by Mark Lynas. Since becoming an advocate of genetic modification (GM) and nuclear power, Mark Lynas has drawn increasingly hostile criticism from his erstwhile...

This is probably my favourite environmentalist line of 2011... There is simply no exaggerating the importance of the oceans to earth’s overall ecological balance. Apart from all that exaggeration, of course... Species extinctions, ocean acidification... coral...

I got a visit from the Jehova's Witnesses this morning, who handed me this. I like Jehova's Witnesses. Not because I agree with anything they say (at all), but because they arrive at your doorstep impeccably turned-out, and ready with passionate, but polite and...

Apologies for the recent dearth of posts -- I've been a bit busy, and not had time for my usual over-long posts. I've just come across this, however, in the course of some research. It's the Prince of Wales, introducing the Business and Environment Programme at the...

Former Labour-government climate activist, Ed Miliband -- who, for some reason, is now the opposition leader -- has an interview in the Guardian about his and his party's performance. Ed Miliband today lays out far-reaching reforms designed to modernise Labour's...

Conservation is too often taken at face value. Criticise it, and you may find yourself accused of wanting to concrete over the entire countryside, and to have all the creatures that live within in slaughtered for fun. The truth is, however, that even a country as...

The list of the 26 contributors to the IPSO panel of expert scientists is on page 10 of the report of the three day conference. The previous posts here seem to have attracted a lot of interest, so I thought I'd have a yet deeper look at this panel for those following...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water... World's oceans in 'shocking' decline Warns Richard Black at the BBC. The oceans are in a worse state than previously suspected, according to an expert panel of scientists. In a new report, they warn that...

Following my post at Bishop Hill, I thought I'd use the EU's transparency site to check out a few more arrangements between the EU and NGOs. As I pointed out in my post, only the accounts for the years 2007-2009 are listed. This isn't news, by the way, we knew that...

I am very pleased to have a guest post up on the excellent Bishop Hill, Ideological money laundering. As everybody now knows, the headlines from IPCC WGIII report on renewable energy appear to have been written by Greenpeace. When the Summary for Policy Makers was...