The Values of Everything

Progressive causes are failing: here’s how they could be turned around

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The Aliens Are Coming

We appear to be incapable of dealing with invasive species while there’s still time.

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Saving Species

Here are the biodiversity challenges we’ll be pressing governments to meet

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Looking for Trouble

Why are we still prospecting for oil when we can’t afford to use existing reserves?

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Evolving Madness

Why does a crazy set of beliefs in one field seem to migrate into unrelated subjects?

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The Process Is Dead

It’s already clear that the climate talks in December will go nowhere - so what do we do?

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The Smear Storm Widens

Those who made false accusations against Rajendra Pachauri are now turning their fire on me.

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Strong Meat

A new book has forced me to reconsider my views on food.

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Pachauri - The Smears Continue

The people hounding him have failed to produce a single scrap of evidence to support their accusations, yet there’s no let-up.

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The Smearing of an Innocent man

The report we publish for the first time today proves that the serious charges made against Rajendra Pachauri are completely untrue.

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Right and Wrong

Why climate science divides people along political lines.

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Towering Lunacy

Green enthusiasm for vertical farms shows that no one is untouched by magical thinking.

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Words Fail Us

Talking has so far done nothing to protect the world’s biodiversity. So we’re launching a new campaign to get governments to act.

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Turning Estates into Villages

How good planning can make us slimmer, fitter, safer and less lonely.

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Tory Boy Racers

The Conservative war on road safety has begun

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Land of Impunity

If the police can get away with killing Ian Tomlinson, there’s no justice in Britain.

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Naming the Nameless

The results of our competition to name England’s threatened species are stunning.

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Sending Off the Ref

The government’s disastrous new deregulation programme means that the poor will be fouled by the rich.

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Filth and Fury

Was I right, when the hacked climate emails were released, to call for Phil Jones to resign?

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A Bookful of Bookerisms

The climate change deniers are digging themselves an ever deeper hole over ‘Amazongate’

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The Death of Irony

How could the intent of today’s column have passed so many people by?

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A Modest Proposal for Tackling Youth

Here’s how the UK should pursue its war against young people.

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BP’s Dumb Investors

The companies now threatening to sue BP have only themselves to blame.

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Ridleyed With Errors

Matt Ridley only digs his hole deeper as he attempts to justify his distortions.

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Bogus, Misdirected and Effective

The Tea Party movement is steeped in misinformation and denial. But it has a lot to teach the left.

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Madder and Madder

Lord Monckton’s increasingly extravagant claims threaten to destroy the movement he champions

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The Money Gusher

The oil industry’s decommissioning costs will dwarf those of nuclear power. The money being made now should be put aside to meet them.

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The Man Who Wants to Northern Rock the Planet

Matt Ridley’s irrational theories remain unchanged by his own disastrous experiment.

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Universal Cure

Here’s a simple means of transforming the UK’s universities, schools and society

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Out of Sight, Out of Trouble

A new report shows how the UK could tap into vast renewable resources, without any of the aggro caused by existing wind farms.

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Fast Train to Nowhere?

Before the UK commissions a high speed rail network, we should ask ourselves some big questions.

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Money’s Hunger

Industrial civilisation is trashing the environment. Should we try to reform it or just watch it go down?

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Low-Hanging Fruit

This hung parliament is the first and possibly last chance we have to transform politics. We must seize it.

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Carbon Graveyard

Almost half the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions have gone missing. Here they are, and here are the amazing implications.

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The Parasites in Labour’s Brain

It’s time we stopped voting fearfully, and rewarding the most right-wing government the UK has had since 1945.

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A Ginger Revolution

Grassroots campaigns could break Britain’s corrupt political system

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The Welsh Revolution

Why are radical politics electable in Wales but not in England?

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An Eruption of Reality

Has our society become too complex to sustain?

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Putting the Pope on Trial

International law presents a radical challenge to the powerful: they could be judged by the same standards as the rest of us.

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Debate with Steve Easterbrook

We explore the mutual incomprehension across the climate emails divide

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Walled In

Science and humanities students view each other with incomprehension: blame our dumb, narrow schooling.

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Morality Policing

The police treat protests and festivals as a threat to their power

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War With the Ghosts

What are our nuclear weapons for, and who controls them?

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Jonathan Porritt’s Strange Slurs

I learn, once again, that telling brutal truths isn’t the best way of winning friends

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The Naming of Things

Here’s one small way in which the collapse of biodiversity could be slowed

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The German Disease

The scheme for supporting renewables that the UK is importing from Germany has been a disaster there.

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The Unpersuadables

In fighting for science, we subscribe to a comforting illusion: that people can be swayed by the facts.

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Treachery or Common Sense?

I’m being hounded for taking a stand against feed-in tariffs: here’s a riposte to the critics.

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Is the Earth Flat?

A TV debate about whether climate change is happening

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A Great Green Rip-Off

The feed-in tariffs about to be introduced here are extortionate, useless and deeply regressive.

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Bleak Havens

How the ultra-rich enslave themselves

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The Reckoning

Wherever Blair goes, our campaign ensures that he can never be free from the fear of arrest

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A Bounty for Blair’s Arrest

Today I am launching a new fund – www.arrestblair.org – to reward people who attempt to arrest the former prime minister

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The War Against Nature Resumes

As the new badger cull shows, we revert to irrational destruction as soon as our economic interests are threatened.

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The Holocaust We Will Not See

Avatar half-tells a story we would all prefer to forget

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Consumer Hell

How do we break a system which now permeates every aspect of our lives?

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Requiem for a Crowded Planet

This is what the failure of the climate talks means.

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Scramble for the Atmosphere

The useless, destructive talks at Copenhagen show that the treaty-making system has scarcely changed in 130 years.

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Showdown With Plimer

We’ve finally had our battle, and it was not to his advantage

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Here’s Your Speech Mr Obama

This is what the US president should say in Copenhagen

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Bust-Up With Boris

I meet the mayor of London and have a good old ding-dong

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This Is About Us

The talks at Copenhagen are not just about climate change. They represent a battle to redefine humanity.

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UKIP’s latest acquisition

Is Lord Monckton an asset or a liability?

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The Real Climate Scandal

Shocked by the hacked emails? Wait till you see what the other side’s been up to.

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Case Studies

Here’s the evidence for the contentions in The Real Climate Scandal

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The Urgent Threat to World Peace is … Canada

The harm this country could do in the next two weeks will outweigh all the good it has done in a century.

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The Knights Carbonic

Yes, the hacked climate emails are damaging. But here’s the one you’d need to see if you wanted to show that manmade global warming is a scam.

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If Nothing Else, Save Farming

It’s probably too late to prepare for peak oil, but we can at least try to salvage food production.

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Champions of the Overdog

Local papers are vanishing. Does it matter?

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Death Denial

Why the sudden surge in climate change denial? Could it be about something else altogether?

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