Until the noise of a century of media hype and unscientific speculation about the Arctic has been removed from the public debate, science will be unable to explain what, if anything, the signal from the Arctic is telling us. In the last days of the Northern hemisphere’s summer, the sea ice that covers part of […]

The Global Warming Policy Foundation is pleased to announce that Professor Garth W Paltridge has joined the GWPF’s Academic Advisory Council. Dr Paltridge is a an atmospheric physicist and Emeritus Professor at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and was a […]

London 31 October:  A new report published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation reveals the extent to which current policy-making is reliant on untrustworthy peer-reviewed research, much of which cannot be replicated and “may be simply untrue”.   “Fraudulent research makes it past gatekeepers at even the most prestigious journals,” says Donna Laframboise, the study’s […]

Matt Ridley delivered the 2016 Annual GWPF Lecture at the Royal Society, London 17 October — Full lecture (pdf)

It is now ten years since the publication of the controversial Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change. A new assessment of its evolution and shortcomings published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) comes to a damning verdict. Peter Lilley MP, a former senior UK Minister, and one of only five MPs who voted […]

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. Prior to the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit, Peter Doherty, winner of the […]

We’ve all heard the buzzword. Whether it’s an anti-bullying program in Finland, an alcohol awareness initiative in Texas, or climate change responses around the globe, we’re continually assured that government policies are ‘evidence-based.’ Science itself guides our footsteps. There’s just one problem: science is in deep trouble. Last year, Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, […]

2016 ANNUAL GWPF LECTURE The Royal Society, London 17 October 2016 Matt Ridley delivers the 2016 Annual GWPF Lecture at the Royal Society, London 17 October I am a passionate champion of science. I have devoted most of my career to celebrating and chronicling scientific discovery. I think the scientific method is humankind’s greatest achievement, […]