Global Warming
At long last the mainstream media are paying attention to global warming sceptics
The failure of the Earth to warm since the start of the century has been a talking point for global warming sceptics for many years, but it is only in… Continue reading
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What’s strange about this weather? Nothing at all
How can we stop weather hyperbole? I am so staggeringly bored of waking up each morning to headlines which insist we’re all going to be killed – on the roads,… Continue reading
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In Doha, a big green rent-seeking machine
A couple of weeks ago the great global warming bandwagon coughed and spluttered to a halt in Doha, the latest stop on its never-ending world tour. The annual UN climate… Continue reading
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An important intervention on energy policies, but will the Lib Dems pay attention?
The economist Dieter Helm is one of the few policy thinkers respected on both sides of the coalition. Oliver Letwin is a long-standing friend of his and Clegg’s office views… Continue reading
36 CommentsWhatever Chris Huhne says, Durban hasn’t changed anything
This morning the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) told us that the climate summit in Durban, which concluded over the weekend, has been ‘heralded a success’. As they… Continue reading
18 CommentsGood news! Sea levels aren’t rising dangerously
This week’s Spectator cover star Nils-Axel Mörner brings some good news to a world otherwise mired in misery: sea levels are not rising dangerously – and haven’t been for at… Continue reading
94 CommentsMonbiot’s mission
George Monbiot is undergoing an astounding and very public transformation. Last week he overcame the habit of a lifetime and fully endorsed nuclear power as a safe energy source. He… Continue reading
35 CommentsWhen it comes to global warming, rational debate is what we need
We had a sell-out debate on global warming at The Spectator on Tuesday and, as I found out this morning, the debate is still going on. The teams were led… Continue reading
84 CommentsA flooded world
It looks like the opening of a Hollywood disaster film. The South African government has declared parts of the country disaster areas, after 40 people died in floods in a… Continue reading
12 CommentsCarbon omissions
With the latest round of international climate change negotiations at Cancun less than a week away, Policy Exchange has published research showing that the UK’s and EU’s performance in reducing… Continue reading
41 CommentsKing Coal Will Reign For Years Yet
Like Andrew says, James Fallows’ Atlantic article on clean coal – and China’s advances in developing the stuff – deserves to be read in full. But it’s also a useful… Continue reading
8 CommentsHunt the heretic
Eureka, the science magazine from The Times, is in many ways a brilliant accomplishment. Advertising is following readers in an online migration – but James Harding, the editor, personally persuaded… Continue reading
24 CommentsGlobal Warming Fail
Long-time and recent readers alike will have noticed that I almost never write about climate-change or global warming or whatever you want to call it. That’s because I think it… Continue reading
17 CommentsWhy we shouldn’t worry about overpopulation
Perhaps the most sinister side of the environmentalist movement is the idea of an “optimal population,” where human life is seen as a menace. The Optimal Population Trust has today… Continue reading
84 CommentsCountdown to Copenhagen
How seriously are we to take Lord Stern on the economics of climate change? At the LSE yesterday, he rather hysterically claimed that the Copenhagen summit will be "the most… Continue reading
46 CommentsWhat about Climategate?
A reader writes to complain that I haven’t written anything about "Climategate" (please, can we stop the use of the suffix "gate"?). Well, the main reason I haven’t is that… Continue reading
15 CommentsIs the world cooling or not – and what is to blame?
The Financial Times supplement this weekend contained profiles of the world’s leading climate experts, including – the magazine promised – the world’s leading sceptic. I quickly leafed through the pages… Continue reading
46 CommentsArabian Chutzpah
No matter what you think of global warming, I think this qualifies as chutzpah: Saudi Arabia is trying to enlist other oil-producing countries to support a provocative idea: if wealthy… Continue reading
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