The Smearing of an Innocent man
The report we publish for the first time today proves that the serious charges made against Rajendra Pachauri are completely untrue.
Archive for the 'climate change' Category
Right and Wrong
Why climate science divides people along political lines.
Filth and Fury
Was I right, when the hacked climate emails were released, to call for Phil Jones to resign?
A Bookful of Bookerisms
The climate change deniers are digging themselves an ever deeper hole over ‘Amazongate’
Madder and Madder
Lord Monckton’s increasingly extravagant claims threaten to destroy the movement he champions
Out of Sight, Out of Trouble
A new report shows how the UK could tap into vast renewable resources, without any of the aggro caused by existing wind farms.
Debate with Steve Easterbrook
We explore the mutual incomprehension across the climate emails divide
Walled In
Science and humanities students view each other with incomprehension: blame our dumb, narrow schooling.
Jonathan Porritt’s Strange Slurs
I learn, once again, that telling brutal truths isn’t the best way of winning friends
The German Disease
The scheme for supporting renewables that the UK is importing from Germany has been a disaster there.
The Unpersuadables
In fighting for science, we subscribe to a comforting illusion: that people can be swayed by the facts.
Treachery or Common Sense?
I’m being hounded for taking a stand against feed-in tariffs: here’s a riposte to the critics.
Is the Earth Flat?
A TV debate about whether climate change is happening
A Great Green Rip-Off
The feed-in tariffs about to be introduced here are extortionate, useless and deeply regressive.
Requiem for a Crowded Planet
This is what the failure of the climate talks means.
Scramble for the Atmosphere
The useless, destructive talks at Copenhagen show that the treaty-making system has scarcely changed in 130 years.
Showdown With Plimer
We’ve finally had our battle, and it was not to his advantage
Here’s Your Speech Mr Obama
This is what the US president should say in Copenhagen
Bust-Up With Boris
I meet the mayor of London and have a good old ding-dong
This Is About Us
The talks at Copenhagen are not just about climate change. They represent a battle to redefine humanity.
UKIP’s latest acquisition
Is Lord Monckton an asset or a liability?
The Real Climate Scandal
Shocked by the hacked emails? Wait till you see what the other side’s been up to.
Case Studies
Here’s the evidence for the contentions in The Real Climate Scandal
The Urgent Threat to World Peace is … Canada
The harm this country could do in the next two weeks will outweigh all the good it has done in a century.
The Knights Carbonic
Yes, the hacked climate emails are damaging. But here’s the one you’d need to see if you wanted to show that manmade global warming is a scam.
Death Denial
Why the sudden surge in climate change denial? Could it be about something else altogether?
It Doesn’t Get Madder Than This
The Spectator’s new editor has lost it before he even had it.
Answers Come There None
As the Plimer affair shows, climate change deniers are all leaf and no plums
Correspondence with Ian Plimer
Here are the emails I’ve exchanged with the climate change denier Ian Plimer.
Correspondence with the Spectator
Here are the emails I’ve exchanged with the Spectator over the Plimer affair
Not Even Wrong
We need a radical new approach to cutting greenhouse gases, and it might have arrived.
Pulling Yourself Off the Ground By Your Whiskers
Here is the simple mathematical reason why large scale carbon offsets can’t work
Stop Building Tanks
Let’s divert the money spent on arms to addressing the real strategic threat.
Crash Landing
As BA reports massive losses, isn’t it time to scrap the airport expansion programme?
How Much Should We Leave in the Ground?
Here are some estimates for how much fossil fuel we can use, and a call for a global moratorium on new prospecting.
An Attack of the Bellamoids
James Lovelock says the government’s enthusiasm for wind farms approaches fascism. What is he on about?
Pyrolising the Planet
The debate over biochar hots up.
Woodchips With Everything
Here comes the latest utopian catastrophe: the plan to solve climate change with biochar
A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
If you think preventing climate change is politically difficult, look at the political problems of adapting to it.
The Christopher Booker Prize for Climate Change Bullshit
Today I launch a prestigious and coveted award. Who will the lucky winner be?
David Bellamy Challenged
A spectacular confrontation over climate change
Andy Harrison Challenged
In the fifth and final interview in the first series of fierce encounters with policy makers, I give the chief executive of easyJet the third degree.
Skating on Thin Ice
The freeze got me on my skates, and brought the loonies out of their holes.
Shaun Spiers Challenged
This is the third of my investigative interviews with policy makers.
A Beardful of Bunkum
David Bellamy’s at it again, with even dafter claims about climate change.
Yvo de Boer Challenged
This is the first in my series of interviews with those who hold our future in their hands. None of them are given an easy time.
Whistling in the Wind
The new climate change report falls miles short of what we need. Here are some of the emergency measures it should have contained.
One Shot Left
The latest science suggests that preventing runaway climate change means total decarbonisation.
Picking Up the Gauntlet
Arthur Scargill has challenged me to a duel. Name your date, sir.
Coal Scuttled
The climate camp outside the Kingsnorth power station is contesting the biggest issue of them all
Traded Away
A cunning new loophole has wrecked the government’s Climate Change Bill.
The Self-Justifying Myth
People love films like The Great Global Warming Swindle, because they tell us what we want to believe.
Green Lifeline
A radical new idea could save the world’s ecosystems. But what will it do to the economy?
Majesty, We Have Gone Mad
An open letter to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
Travelling Light
Is the airship a viable alternative to jet travel?
Burnt Out
The government’s plans for clean coal are another great green scam.
An Exchange of Souls
As government documents show, Sir Nicholas Stern accidentally launched a trade in human lives.
Hurray! We’re Going Backwards!
Bush trashed the climate talks. But look what Gore did.
Leave It In The Ground
The climate talks are a stitch-up, as no one is talking about supply.
What Is Progress?
The numbers show that this should be the real question at the Bali talks.
The Road Well Travelled
Are we already shutting our minds to the consequences of climate change?
The New Coal Age
A vast new opencast pit will ruin local people’s lives and wreck the government’s climate change policies. How was it allowed to happen?
A Sudden Change of State
A new paper suggests we have been greatly underestimating the impacts of climate change - and the size of the necessary response.
Debate with Clive Hamilton
In which we battle over carbon targets, green tokenism and the economics of climate change.
The Conspiracy Widens
A final response to Alexander Cockburn.
Alexander Cockburn and the Corruption of Science
This is a response to Alexander Cockburn’s articles on global warming. You can find all the articles, and other responses, here: http://www.zmag.org/debatesglobalwarming.html Read more »
Giving Up On Two Degrees
Have we already abandoned our attempts to prevent dangerous climate change? Read more »
The Real Climate Censorship
It’s happening, it’s systematic, and it is precisely the opposite story to the one the papers are telling.
Correspondence with Hamish Mykura
Head of History, Science and Religion, Channel 4 Read more »