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What Italy's nuclear referendum means for climate change | Mark Lynas
Voters overwhelmingly backed anti-nuclear campaigners' demands to block any new atomic power in ItalyAsk a stupid question and you'll get a stupid answer. That's what happened in the Italian referendum...
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A meaningful Durban treaty would be a triumph of weak over strong
Tough, legally binding targets are the only way to tackle climate change – but powerful, high emitting nations will be stubbornWith only days to go before the start of the next big round of climate...
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The Spectator runs false sea-level claims on its cover | Mark Lynas and...
Fraser Nelson makes the biggest blunder of his career by putting Nils-Axel Mörner's, a serial promoter of nonsense, in his magazineIn the brilliant farce Le Dîner de Cons, a group of bored, rich...
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A challenge to Christopher Booker: try Decc's future energy calculator...
Christopher Booker earns a living from promoting conspiracy theories and his recent column on the 2050 calculator was a textbook exampleEveryone loves a good conspiracy theory. Indeed, some media...
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Mohamed Nasheed's overthrow is a blow to the Maldives and democracy
The deposed president is famous for his efforts to fight climate change, but his lifelong struggle has been for democracy – and now I fear for his safetyIn the never-ending battle for democracy and...
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This nuclear deal is good for Britain and the battle against climate change |...
The deal signed by David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy sends a clear signal of both countries' commitment to a nuclear futureAlthough the UK-French nuclear power deal signed by David Cameron and Nicolas...
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While Japan turns away from nuclear power, South Korea sticks to its path
In the same week that Japan mothballed its last reactor, South Korea began work on two new nuclear power stationsThe traffic lights are still blinking in Odaka town, north-western Japan, but few cars...
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Without nuclear, the battle against global warming is as good as lost | Mark...
With nuclear, there is a chance that global warming can be limited to 2C - without, we may be heading for 4C or aboveA madness is taking hold. In the same week as Arctic ice cover is recorded at its...
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It's a myth that wind turbines don't reduce carbon emissions | Chris Goodall...
Conclusive figures show that the sceptics who lobby against wind power simply have their facts wrongThe assertion that wind turbines don't reduce carbon emissions is a myth, according to conclusive...
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Fracking for shale gas: the right way forward? | Mark Lynas and David Santillo
A climate change writer and a Greenpeace scientist are here to discuss with you an issue polarising the green movementThe UK government has given the green light to fracking for shale gas – a...
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Lib Dems' nuclear U-turn shows they realise we can't say 'no' to everything |...
Party's ditching of mistaken policy signals they understand we face serious challenges of energy security and climate change"I've changed my mind because of climate change."This was energy secretary Ed...
View ArticleBiotech crops in Europe could be ‘dead and buried’ if anti-GM groups succeed
If lobbyists succeed in blocking EU proposals to end a ban on GM seeds, crop biotech in Europe could be lost foreverContinue reading...
View ArticleWe must reclaim the climate change debate from the political extremes
Alarmists and deniers need to climb out of their parallel trenches, engage with the developing world and work together to end the crisisClimate change is real, caused almost entirely by humans, and...
View ArticleThe Maldives cannot represent climate leadership with an autocrat at the helm
Countries that slip backwards into autocracy and corruption should be excluded from accessing the $100bn climate finance promised to developing nationsThis week sees governments meeting in Bonn,...
View ArticleWe are pro-nuclear, but Hinkley C must be scrapped
Overpriced, overcomplicated and overdue, the Hinkley project needs to be killed off and the money invested into other low-carbon technologies • Read more: Nuclear supporting environmentalists in call...
View ArticleEcomodernism launch was a screw-up of impressive proportions
Our attempt to launch a new environmental political movement in the UK was certainly ill-timed but is hopefully not doomed Well that was interesting. Last week I and a few other people attempted to...
View ArticleWind is not driving the UK towards power blackouts | Chris Goodall and Mark...
Contrary to what Matt Ridley and the Tory commentariat would have us believe, last week’s grid problems were caused not by a lack of wind but an over-reliance on a small number of fossil fuel suppliers...
View ArticleAlert! There's a dangerous new viral outbreak: Zika conspiracy theories
Most conspiracy theories are harmless, but rumours that GM mosquitoes may inadvertently have caused Brazil’s epidemic could potentially cost livesConspiracy theories are not unlike viruses. Mostly they...
View ArticleSir David MacKay obituary
Cambridge physicist and government scientific adviser with a rational approach to the climate and energy debateSir David MacKay, who has died of cancer aged 48, was a true polymath, a rare breed in...
View ArticleScientists to take to the streets in global march for truth
March for Science on 22 April will see scientists and supporters at more than 500 locations stand up for evidence-based thinkingScientists and science supporters will take to the streets in a global...
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