Following the saga of hacked emails from the Hadley Climate Research Centre, the Anthropogenic Global Warming lobby has taken another body blow - with a new...
Alex Evans
Alex Evans is a Senior Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University, and the author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren't Enough? (Penguin, 2017), a book about the power of deep stories to unlock transformational change. He lives in North Yorkshire and is currently working on political polarisation and learning dry stone walling. Full biog here.
You lost us at hello
The FT's Lex Column last week: Like leaf blowers, commodity analysts seem pointless and full of hot air. Investors might have at least expected some respite...
The sincerest form of flattery
Proposals to be unveiled [in a speech today by Conservative Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne] include a “green investment bank” designed to...
Exxon tells it like it is
Currently doing the rounds on teh internets: this vintage 1962 Life Magazine advert from Humble Energy - which became Exxon after its merger with Standard...
Hard landings
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opk1bmjTFqo[/youtube]
Cathy Ashton grilled on her agenda as EU Foreign Minister
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfrk6vdO3V0[/youtube]
Jared Diamond on collapse at TED
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IESYMFtLIis[/youtube]
How we talk about climate change
We’re kidding ourselves if we think that “green collar jobs” will persuade people to take serious action on climate change. A deeper narrative is required.
24 hours to go to the EU top jobs summit…
...and things are turning nasty, according to the Economist's Charlemagne: To my surprise, a dominant mood in this final stretch is one of hostility towards...
There goes the [global] neighbourhood
Front page splash on The Times this morning: Less than half the population believes that human activity is to blame for global warming, according to an...
The EPA ‘whistleblower’ YouTube
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSNQzSjb38g[/youtube] This video, by Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel, two veteran Environmental Protection Agency...
The window of opportunity on scarcity issues starts to close (updated x3)
With oil and food prices already back to July 07 levels, have policymakers missed the window of opportunity to take action when prices eased after the credit crunch?
“I have never seen such elation…”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut5t3hWyAwQ[/youtube]
What to make of Gordon Brown’s conversion to the Tobin Tax?
"Very substantial drawbacks." "Big problems attached to it." "It is very difficult to advocate a tax that has been, in a sense, rejected by the person who put...
The moment healthcare passed the House
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOQ-Iw6_wTA[/youtube]
How a good outcome might yet be salvaged from the UK drugs row
The row in Britain over the sacking of Professor David Nutt, until last week the head of the head of the government's Advisory Committee on the Misuse of...
The Jedi approach to antisocial behaviour
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfuXJfmS0Us[/youtube]
Remind me why we’re in Afghanistan again
From the September 10 resignation letter of Matthew Hoh, the US State Department's Senior Civilian Representative for Zabul Province in Afghanistan: I find...
With friends like these
If you've opened a British newspaper over the past few days, then you'll already know that despite the warm signals from capitals around Europe towards the...
Andy McNab on the BNP
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LAaIfk48iI[/youtube]
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