When is a short term trend not a short term trend? When it's an upward anomaly. James Randerson in the Guardian tells us that, This year is set to be the coolest since 2000, according to a preliminary estimate of global average temperature that is due to be released...
The Ethics of 'the Ethics of Climate Change'
James Garvey didn't like Ben's review of his book on Culture Wars. But instead of responding to it, he seems to have merely laid out the same argument again. Science can give us a grip on the fact of climate change. (For a start, have a look here:...
The Return of the Precautionary Principle
Last Friday, we asked 'what happened to the precautionary principle'. Recent arguments dominating the public discussion on climate change seem to have been about the 'scientific consensus' achieving certainty, rather than advising caution in the face of doubt. Yet on...
Oh, to be in England…
...now that April's there. And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England - now! - Robert Browning Oh, to be...