Monbiot's Money Myopia

George Monbiot isn't always entirely wrong. Writing in the Guardian yesterday: Why is the Medical Research Council run by an arms manufacturer? Why is the Natural Environment Research Council run by the head of a construction company? Why is the chairman of a real...

Green-Eyed Monsters

Few ecotastrophists will be disappointed that CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has had to be shut down for at least a couple of months to fix a technical problem. Because, for a while there, the Greens' perpetual thunder about the imminent thermageddon was stolen by...

Climate Change Delusion By Proxy

Since the first case of the psychiatric disorder 'climate change delusion' was diagnosed in an Australian patient earlier this month, commentators have suggested that the symptoms expressed by Al Gore and the like point to the condition being a rather common one....

Snowmen Families Hit by Meltdown Double Whammy

Continuing the English tradition of judges making absurd public statements... And following Professor Philip James's call for a "climate plan" to "tackle obesity"... And following Sir David King's "climate change poses a bigger threat than terrorism"... Ladies and...