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There’s a new book just out " Contemporary Climate Change Debates: A Student Primer " edited by Mike Hulme. I contributed a short...

Been pondering whether it was worth bother blogging this but I haven’t written for a while and in the end I decided the title was too good ...

Hello faithful blog readers. After a long absence I'm going to try to post some things again. Got a small backlog of ideas to write abo...

Fans of Betteridge's Law will already know the answer.... This is about the latest food scare of course. Toast and “overcooked pot...

Lots of people have asked about this paper (which I think is open access). To cut a long story short, it's not silly - the authors...

I wasn't planning on writing anything about the Grundmann letter in Nature (paywalled of course, but you aren't missing much) as i...

So according to the National Obesity Forum (as reported by the BBC), it is "untrue" that excessive calories caused obesity. ...

This Greek thing seems to be all the rage on some blogs I could mention , but I struggle to get excited by it. According to the Grauniad we...

I was amused to see the different publicity, and reaction, to two pieces of research recently. The first was that silly article about runni...

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and that's obviously the readership they are chasing: Shock as retreat of Arctic sea ic...

Fox news had this wonderful graphic last week showing the location of Japanese nuclear power plants: That "Shibuyaeggman" plant lo...

And I really really mean it this time... Obviously I don't mean to belittle or diminish the huge devastation and suffering in northern c...

A great bit of headline-writing from the Daily Wail: Why cycling to work is one of the biggest causes of heart attacks Yes, it's true, t...

A lovely bit of hype in the Torygraph caught my eye: 'Second sun' on its way The Earth could find itself with a 'second sun'...

The long-anticipated Monbiot Inquiry has reported and finds that, while Monbiot's allegations were utterly baseless and incorrect, they...

Oh, no, actually he didn't. BBC News - CRU climate scientists 'did not withold data'

Or maybe not. Hot on the heels of the latest exoneration (and in anticipation of the next - possibly the last?), Fred Pearce has rounded up ...

Oh, I suppose I shouldn't poke fun. Having got their fingers burnt last year - or perhaps I should say, having had their parade thorough...

I've been remiss in my blogging duties due to a lengthy invasion of Annans, which was due to be over today, though one straggler is stil...

A shame to see supposedly reputable sites like the BBC credulously swallowing this nonsense: " Global warming claims a tiny island disp...