Cold is the new warm

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 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...