The Institute of Ideas' tenth Battle of Ideas festival is taking place next month at the Barbican Centre in London. If you're not familiar with the event, the Battle is a weekend of many debates and discussions on many different matters, led by speakers from around...

Way, way back in the 2000s, when everyone believed in Hockey Sticks, the UK's Labour government commissioned somebody nobody had ever heard of to write a report on the economics of climate change, so that it could make an argument for domestic and international...

Environmentalists don't understand politics. Especially democratic politics. And Environmentalists aren't much good at history either. And it should be noted, that although environmentalists like to claim that their perspectives are grounded in science, they are...

Paul Ehrlich once famously remarked, Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun. A point noted here often is that although environmentalists claim that their perspective is grounded in science, their desire for...

The Guardian has quoted Royal Society President, Paul Nurse's outburst: He urged researchers to forge relationships with politicians, lobbyists, religious figures and leaders of organisations in the hope that they might feel ashamed to misuse scientific evidence. But...

Imagine that you are a journalist -- it's not hard to do -- in need of some information about climate change. Where would you turn to first? You might start with the UK's allegedly independent Committee on Climate Change, they are charged by the Climate Change Act...

The last post here noted that there was more than coincidence to environmentalism's ascendency and the decline of the press. The broader point made here is that mediocrity seems to infect many public institutions, who in turn seem to resort to environmentalism. It's...

This blog has long argued that one of the forces driving environmentalism's ascendency is mediocrity, especially in the press. Green-inkers fancy themselves in some kind of war with sceptics or deniers of what they imagine to be the 'reality of climate change'. But in...

A popular notion that has driven a lot of thinking on 'green energy' is that the entire world's demand for energy is equivalent to (or can be met by) the amount of sunlight falling on a relatively small area of land. For instance, this image has done the rounds...

It's been nearly a year since this blog last took a look at Monbiot's thinking. He used to be a favourite, epitomising the green movement's excesses in each of his Guardian stories. But as useful as it is to see what goes on in the fantasy world that environmentalists...