Economist says unilateral decarbonisation carries major economic and political risks A prominent economist says that Britain’s climate and energy policies are ‘futile gesture politics’, and will fail to bring about any change to the climate. Dr Ruth Lea, who has wide-ranging experience of working in the civil service, the financial sector and policy institutions, says […]

Although few in the media have chosen to report it, polar bears represent a major conservation success story. The Global Warming Policy Foundation has published a paper by zoologist Dr Susan Crockford which sets out the truth about the long-term improvement in the conservation status of polar bears. Dr Susan Crockford: Twenty good reasons not […]

A new paper from the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) reveals that there has been no increase in global hurricane activity, despite frequent claims that global warming is making hurricanes more of a problem. Paul Homewood: Tropical Hurricanes in the Age of Global Warming (PDF)

Andrew Montford and John Shade describe how environmentalism has come to permeate school curricula across the UK, featuring in an astonishing variety of subjects, from geography to religious education to modern languages. Andrew Montford and John Shade: Climate Control: Brainwashing in schools (pdf)

A report by the London-based Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) finds that the World Bank has abdicated its primary mission of tackling poverty in the developing world. Rupert Darwall: The Anti-Development Bank- The World Bank’s Regressive Energy Policies (pdf)

One of Europe’s most eminent climate scientists has documented the main scientific reasons why the recent UN climate summit failed to welcome the IPCC’s report on global warming of 1.5°C. Prof Ray Bates: Deficiencies in the IPCC’s Special Report on 1.5 Degrees (pdf)

Science is currently in the grip of a ’reproducibility crisis’ so severe that the editor of a prominent journal has declared that ‘much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue’. Media coverage declaring that ’science is broken’ has become commonplace. Donna Laframboise: Peer Review: Why skepticism is essential (pdf)

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has today filed a complaint to the BBC, accusing Sir David Attenborough of misleading the public about the state of polar bear populations in Canada. Misleading news coverage (Daily Mail) In last night’s wildlife TV series Seven Worlds, One Planet David Attenborough and the BBC once again misled the public in […]