Well, this was predictable. Per Talking Points Memo: Roger Pielke Jr. said Monday that he left FiveThirtyEight, ending a short-lived but turbulent stint with the site launched by Nate Silver earlier this year. Pielke, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado, told Discover Magazine that after editors at the site “showed some reluctance” in publishing […]

The House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee has today published its report following their review into IPCC AR5 WG1. Given the disparity of opinion between Yeo and Lilley, it was hard to imagine how they could come up with a written report that both could put their names to. It turns out that they couldn’t. A […]

Some of the world’s biggest energy companies could see as much as 5 percent of their revenue disappear amid sanctions that shut them off from the Russian energy frontier. Amid rising violence in eastern Ukraine between government and separatist forces, the European Union today sought to punish Russia for its involvement by restricting exports of […]

The debate about the exploitation of shale gas should be seen in the context of what the former environment secretary, Owen Paterson, has described as the fight against the “green blob”. Echoing Michael Gove’s battles with the anti-reform “education blob”, Mr Paterson believes that certain environmental campaigners have become absolutist in their opposition to change. […]