Road to an Atomic Damascus or the Green Reformation?

Poor old Mark Lynas, author of Six Degrees: our future on a hotter planet, who once thrust custard pies into the faces of people who dared to question environmental orthodoxies. He now finds himself on the receiving end of eco-dogma. Fancy that. Just a month ago I had...

The Royal Society: From Science to Fiction

Eco-activist Mark Lynas, has won the Royal Society's prize for popular science writing, for his book, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet. Except that it isn't science, it's fiction. Science fiction; it takes a vaguely plausible scientific possibility,...

Six Degrees

Josie Appleton has written an excellent review of Mark Lynas' book, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet Appleton takes issue with many of Lynas' claims and dismal prophecies, and lucidly argues that catastrophic narratives offered by environmentalists may owe...