Environmental news and comment
I had the honour of recording David MacKay’s last interview, on 3 April 2016. The idea was to present him with the Breakthrough Paradigm award because due to his illness he was unlikely to be able to travel to the awards…
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Remarks at ‘Eco-Modernism: Restoring Science to Environment Policy’, hosted by UK2020 & Owen Paterson MP, London 9.30am, 24 September 2015 Thanks to UK2020 and Owen Paterson for hosting this event. I think it’s safe to say that none of us…
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by Linus Blomqvist, Ted Nordhaus, Michael Shellenberger Note: Linus, Ted & Michael will be visiting London soon to launch their new publication Nature Unbound, and will be holding several events related to Ecomodernism. More details here. You won’t hear about…
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Climate change is real, caused almost entirely by humans, and presents a potentially existential threat to human civilisation. Solving climate change does not mean rolling back capitalism, suspending the free market or stopping economic growth. With those two rather innocuous…
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After I posted my piece ‘Matt Ridley’s latest attempt at climate change denial‘ Ridley wrote the following response, which I am happy to publish in full below: As far as I know Mark Lynas is an honourable man. He changed…
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Note: Matt Ridley has responded – please see his reply piece here Matt Ridley’s latest column in the Times illustrates a persistent theme for those who oppose action on climate change: that cuts in carbon emissions intended to reduce the…
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Guest posting by Robert Stone Not too long ago, most environmentalists assumed that the world was rapidly running out of fossil fuels. This certain fact, we believed, would lead to a steady and steep rise in energy prices that in…
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Nobody seems to have noticed, in amongst all the hoopla about shale gas and whatnot, that the UK government has just announced the proposed ‘strike prices’ to be paid for electricity generated by large-scale renewables from next year until 2019….
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