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About 'Denying', 'Deniers', and 'Denial'
There has been some discussion about the D-word recently. The Science of Doom blog considered the historical implications of the word, and argues that its use in the climate debate trivialises the deaths of millions, and urged people to stop using it. Keith Kloor...
Celebs, Comedians, Pop Stars… Climate Whores
While browsing Twitter the other day, I chanced upon this tweet from the Dept. of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)... How should we power London? http://t.co/GixAT5FcJ9 Discussing tonight #powerlondon @jonsnowc4 @JayRayner1 @shappikhorsandi & @prospect_uk—...
Advocating the Science Cake and Politicising it
The science-advocacy axis has provoked much fraught discussion over the years. Crudely put, there appear to be scientist, activists, and activist-scientists, and scientists-activists. The consensus appears to be that political advocacy and science should not be...
We Need to Talk About Green NGOs…
NGOs are weird. And green NGOs are even weirder. Even at face value they are weird, precisely because we are supposed to take them and the issues they seemingly speak for at face value, as plainly as we would take the Campaign for the Abolition of Stubbed Toes (CAST)...
2071 and Counting
I have a review of Chris Rapley's "play", 2071, over at Breitbart London. The latest development in the green colonisation of the cultural sphere is the planet-saving stage play. This year, the Royal Court Theatre commissioned Duncan Macmillian and Chris Rapley to...
Lewandowsky's Logic
It's Lewandowsky time, again. 'Are you a poor logician? Logically, you might never know', he observes with Richard Pancost over at the Conversation Nonversation. More about that logic shortly... At the Nonversation, of course, comments from Lewandowsky's critics have...
Why Environmental Correspondents Trip Over Themselves
One of the things I've tried to point out here is the emptiness of the categories and concepts that dominate reporting on the climate debate. In particular, the notion of 'consensus' has become so entirely divorced from its substance that those who invoke it often...
The Daddy State
Here's my talk from the recent Battle of Ideas festival session -- Kindergarten culture: why does government treat us like children? -- which some readers may find interesting. Some context: it begins with a reference to the proposal to ban smoking in public parks in...
The Green Blob in Academe
Catherine Mitchell is Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Exeter. She is also one of the academics behind a joint venture between Exeter University and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, called IGov: 'Innovation, Governance and...
Nuclear power? Yes please. But not this…
This was originally written for Spiked, who haven't yet decided whether or not to publish it. Plans to bring UK nuclear energy out of its torpor were given mild relief last week, as the EU Commission approved the deal between the Government and EDF – the developer of...
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Climate alarmism won’t stop the wildfires
We need practical solutions to natural disasters, not vast carbon bureaucracies and global treaties. As the presidential election draws nearer and the wildfires afflicting western US states have intensified, the desperate attempts to turn climate change into political...
The UK press is already on XR’s side
The 'billionaire-owned', 'right-wing' press is full to the brim with climate-change alarmism. Extinction Rebellion’s decision to block the delivery of certain ‘right-wing’ newspapers across the UK on Saturday morning has been rightly condemned as a violation of press...
The problem in California is poverty, not climate change
The heatwaves and the fires are natural – the electricity blackouts are not. California is once again at the frontline of Gaia’s revenge. Climate change has been cited as the cause of a heatwave afflicting the state, causing the governor, Gavin Newsom, to declare a...
The naff symbolism of modern eco-protest
Protesters in fancy dress, vandalising monuments, know nothing about the issues they want to raise awareness of. Earlier this month, activists from Extinction Rebellion (XR) poured red paint on the steps of Trafalgar Square and threw luminous green ink into its...
Environmentalism’s Radical Next Generation
This past week, a new group calling itself Beyond Politics (BP) threw buckets of bright-pink paint at the entrances to the London offices of four global NGOs, including Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace. Read More at RealClear Energy...
The government has lost control
The masks u-turn shows it has surrendered its authority to ‘the science’. They couldn’t have picked a worse way to signal that the economy is ‘back open for business’. This week, just days after high-street shops were allowed to reopen after months of closure, the UK...
Environmentalism: a racist ideology
Green neo-Malthusianism is the last redoubt of racist eugenics in mainstream society. As reported on spiked last month, it did not take long for green ideologues to seize on the chaos of the coronavirus pandemic. And in recent weeks, racial politics has exploded,...
Covid-19 is a frightening dress rehearsal of the climate agenda
Freedom, democracy and the economy have all been sacrificed to the precautionary principle. Months into the pandemic and many unknowns still cloud our understanding of the virus. The basic parameters of its transmission rate are still contested by scientists. Rather...
The myth of climate-change refugees
Climate change has become an excuse to abandon people living on the coast. Much of the Welsh village of Fairbourne lies between just one and three meters above sea level. It was built on a salt marsh in the 19th century behind two metre-high sea walls to protect the...
The Heathrow decision is an assault on democracy
MPs and the public want a third runway and yet judges have struck it down. This is a disgrace. Yesterday’s ruling in the Court of Appeal has seemingly resolved the decades-long wrangling over the future of Heathrow’s third runway. The court decided that the government...