I will be publishing an occasional blog mainly focused on climate policy in response to misleading or erroneous things written by prominent people. In a recent blog, ( Financial Times, May 23rd 2013 ) Nick Butler bemoaned the collapse of the European carbon price. It was, he said, […]
The environment is off the metro-land agenda – ENDS Report June 2013
This column features in the recently published ENDS Report A review of the weak environmental machinery of the government is needed to counter the growing influence of the Treasury. Whether the UK Independence Party’s surge in the local elections really is the seismic event in British politics that the […]
The futility of trying to control climate change through a carbon price
NUCLEAR NONSENSE 2
NUCLEAR NONSENSE 1.
Letter to the Sunday Telegraph – MPs and academics call for National Audit Office to review nuclear negotiations
ENDS REPORT – What is killing bees?
This column features in the recently published ENDS Report ‘Neonicitinoid’ is more than a difficult word to roll your tongue around. The neonicitinoids are a class of neuro-active insecticides that came into widespread use in the late nineties. They are now at the heart of a debate that again pits […]
Prime Minister to make £50 billion bet
Who saved the whale?
Below is the letter that I wrote to The Independent, which was published online today. Michael McCarthy consistently writes with knowledge and passion on natural history. Would that his knowledge of history were as consistent. His account (13 June ) of the history of the campaign to save the whales was […]