Scientific Consenseless

Writing in New Scientist this week, James Hansen tells us that the scientific community (you know, those 'thousands' of specialised scientists at the IPCC) are wrong, and have massively underestimated the extent of polar ice melting as a consequence of anthropogenic...

More on Lucas

We are surprised that the media has paid such little attention to Caroline Lucas’s statements likening climate change scepticism to holocaust denial. Her comments expose much of what is rotten about the environmental movement: its lack of proportion, its religiosity,...

Caroline Lucas's Radio Gaga

Caroline Lucas was on BBC Radio Oxford's Bill Heine show last night to explain why she thinks climate change scepticism is the same as holocaust denial.There is so much wrong with this that it's going to take us a little while to list it all. We'll get back to you...

56% of You are Fascist B***ards

We mentioned yesterday that Ipsos MORI regard the majority of the UK population as ignorant sheep who can't come to an informed decision even if it's handed to them on a plate. Well, next to what Caroline Lucas, Green Party MEP for the UK South East region, thinks of...

Fairford vs Oxford

There's another letter in the TLS today - from Lord Leach of Fairford - criticising (Lord) Bob May (of Oxford)'s Respect the Facts piece:Sir, – As a non-scientist I cannot have read one-hundredth of the number of scientific articles read by Robert May, yet I am...

CR in TLS

We have a letter in this week's Times Literary Supplement on Bob May's translation of Nullius in Verba. It's not much different from our original post on the subject, except all the commas are in exactly the right place.Sir, – “Nullius in Verba”, the motto of the...