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 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. No comments.
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 »
Posted by RDN under Climate change / Mind and body / Politics and campaigns on 1 December 2009. No comments.
Most of the books on global warming science and policy are pretty muddled, hysterical or dreamy by turns. Very few have real quality. Mike Hulme’s book, Why We Disagree About Climate Change seems to be in a different class. More »
Posted by RDN under Climate change / Politics and campaigns on 24 November 2009. No comments.
Lord Lawson and Benny Peiser are bonny climate change policy warriors but they have perhaps made a strategic error in lining-up climate (or AGW) deniers for their new think-tank. More »
Posted by RDN under Climate change / Politics and campaigns on 24 November 2009. No comments.
The battle lines in the climate change wars are not quite where I had thought they were.
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Posted by RDN under Climate change / Politics and campaigns on 17 November 2009. No comments.
In the run-up to the Copenhagen update of the Kyoto process, the biggest climate change deniers are those who can’t or won’t see that most of the rhetoric about what we “must” do is so much hot air. What we ought to do is another matter. More »
