I’m a cimate change sceptic: I think there are huge uncertainties (good and bad) about the phenomenon of anthropogenic global warming and much will be revealed as the current generation of adults refuses to do much to stop adding carbon to the atmosphere.
Posted by RDN under Climate change / Politics and campaigns / TV and Radio on 30 August 2010. No comments.
This show sounded like a major apologia and a minor mea culpa from the BBC’s chief climate change analyst . It was, though, mostly depressingly familiar. More »
Posted by RDN under Climate change / Economic crisis / Politics and campaigns on 25 July 2010. No comments.
I was asked to appear on Radio 4’s special programme BP: Beyond the horizon and the Macondo disaster. Would it transform the firm and the oil business? I’m clinging to the idea that it won’t much, but with one big caveat. Here’s the crib I prepared…. More »
Posted by RDN under Climate change / Politics and campaigns on 15 June 2010. No comments.
It’s been a spectacularly bad few days for BP. Things looks set to get a bit worse. But they may yet turn out less than apocalyptic. Without shouting the odds, here’re some thoughts. More »
Posted by RDN under Climate change / Politics and campaigns / RDN's media cribsheets on 3 May 2010. No comments.
I went on the BBC morning news show to say that the BP/Transocean Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico (a) might be dreadful but (b) would be the first such celebrity event to be an ecological disaster if it is one. More »
Posted by RDN under Climate change on 12 February 2010. No comments.
Drawing on one aspect of Stewart Brand’s new Whole Earth Discipline, this is a rather dense (mercifully short) note about the weakness of most discussion about the merits of action on climate change. More »
Posted by RDN under Climate change on 8 February 2010. No comments.
On the radio today (BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours) I made a fair fist of describing my position on the trustworthiness of climate change science and the IPCC. I did slightly mispeak… More »
Posted by RDN under Climate change / Politics and campaigns on 24 December 2009. No comments.
The little Spiked essay introducing its After Copenhagen climate debate lays out a devil-may-care progressive, anti-green agenda. That’s good fun. But it doesn’t address the difficulty that mankind may have to act on AGW. More »
Posted by RDN under Climate change on 20 December 2009. No comments.
Dear Reader, I didn’t write the piece which appeared under my name in the Mail On Sunday today. More »
Posted by RDN under Climate change / Politics and campaigns on 4 December 2009. No comments.
It’s a bit early I know but let’s assume that there is a weak agreement at Copenhagen that we really, really ought to do something but only what’s politically feasible, starting quite soon. Here’s a dozen professionals who come away happy. More »
Posted by RDN under Climate change on 4 December 2009. One comment.
What kind of a beast is climate change? Is it like speeding in a built-up area, puttings cats amongst pidgeons, or stirring jam into custard? Here’s why it matters to know which. (I think it’s either the pidgeon or the custard thing, and that it would be nicer if it were the pidgeon one.) More »
