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Category: climate breakdown
The Process Is Dead
It’s already clear that the climate talks in December will go nowhere – so what do we do?
The Smear Storm Widens
Those who made false accusations against Rajendra Pachauri are now turning their fire on me.
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.
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