I do hope that Gavin “Toast” Schmidt, the head of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS), followed the advice I gave him a few months back. Because it now looks very much as if he and many of his colleagues are about to face exciting new job opportunities, hopefully in areas best suited to their talents, such as the challenging world of fast-food retail.
Greenpeace campaigners have jumped on the cancer diagnosis of a worker at the Fukushima nuclear power plant as proof that nuclear power isn’t safe, issuing statements describing his diagnosis as a “massive blow” to the industry. But cancer specialists have
The director of an advocacy group for native tribespeople has slammed ‘green militarism’ – the conservation movement’s increasing use of military tactics to persecute tribespeople who use their ancestral lands. In particular he pointed the finger at the World Wildlife
The glaciers are disappearing. Again. At least according to CNN they are. The slew of evidence presented in support of this disaster includes citing a single scientist and the author visiting a location where the glaciers happen to be in
There are taxes and then there are Green taxes. The latter are used as punitive levies in successful industrialised countries like the UK so politicians can advertise that they really, really do care about the environment. Trouble is, they care
In a rare victory for democracy and common sense, 92 percent of Swiss voters have rejected green taxes in a referendum which took place on Sunday. The proposal, put forward by the Green Liberal Party of Switzerland, had the backing of
In a bid to shift climate change from a “scientific fact” to a “social fact”, the Royal Society for Arts is running a series of events exploring the “seven main dimensions of the climate problem: science, behaviour, democracy, law, technology,
Environmental campaigners make much of the potentially catastrophic outcomes of increased atmospheric CO2 levels, often exaggerating their claims in order to gain public support for policies designed to tackle anthropogenic climate change. If challenged they often fall back on the
