The scheme for supporting renewables that the UK is importing from Germany has been a disaster there.
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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.
Bleak Havens
How the ultra-rich enslave themselves
The Reckoning
Wherever Blair goes, our campaign ensures that he can never be free from the fear of arrest
A Bounty for Blair’s Arrest
Today I am launching a new fund – www.arrestblair.org – to reward people who attempt to arrest the former prime minister
The War Against Nature Resumes
As the new badger cull shows, we revert to irrational destruction as soon as our economic interests are threatened.
The Holocaust We Will Not See
Avatar half-tells a story we would all prefer to forget
Consumer Hell
How do we break a system which now permeates every aspect of our lives?
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
NightMayor
An argument with Boris Johnson at the Copenhagen climate summit.
Bust-Up With Boris
I meet the mayor of London and have a good old ding-dong
Answer the Sodding Question
Highlights from a furious argument with the climate change denier Ian Plimer.
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?