Sunny ‘Liberal Conspiracy’ Hundal is organising a follow-up to 2008′s successful ‘Blog Nation’ event. Details over at Liberal Conspiracy, but Sunny asks what we’d like to discuss; below the fold, then, are some thoughts. In terms of logistics, I would make three suggestions. Given the layout, it’s important that each table isn’t talking amongst itself [...]

I was able to interview Clive Hamilton, author of Affluenza, on his new book, Requiem for a Species at the Pod Delusion. Although it is a book about climate change, it is more about why we have failed to heed the many warnings about where we’re headed and why we deny, in many cases, hard [...]

What evidence would it take to convince you that climate change is occurring, serious and largely the result of human activity? Why do you think so many scientists and scientific organisations have said that they believe climate change is occurring, serious and largely the result of human activity? Are they bad scientists, dupes, conscious frauds [...]

On the Met Office website is a statement, I presume in response to the emails leaked from UEA, that reads We, members of the UK science community, have the utmost confidence in the observational evidence for global warming and the scientific basis for concluding that it is due primarily to human activities. The evidence and [...]

Potholer54, a YouTuber I really like for his ‘Made Easy’ series, has done a great video showing what those hacked climate change emails are actually about.

Yes, I’m biased towards Labour, but the boy done good. H/T The Wardman Wire. xD.

Pity the Hansard scribes who had to record and commit John McDonnell’s mace-laden protest against the lack of a substantive vote on the Heathrow expansion. Unable to bring themselves to actually describe what happened, they’ve plumped for Mr Hoon: [...] Necessarily, when judgments have to be made about the interests of the country, those decisions [...]

Richard Branson has flown one of his aircraft on biofuels. Two interesting points come out of it. Firstly, the green lobby has had to accept both that reducing carbon emissions can have economic consquences and that those consequences can be unacceptable. Specifically, various people have (rightly) pointed out that, at the moment, growing crops for [...]

!– @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } –> Pascal’s wager was deeply flawed as it either assumed that you could choose to believe or conflated belief with action. However, it has a useful application to climate change. The wager is probably best explained with a simple table: Believe (1) Don’t Believe [...]