After Copenhagen: Heating Up the Debate About the Future is a new online debate hosted by spiked in association with our Swedish sister magazine, Voltaire. It will run for most of 2010, with spin-off live events too, and will seek to reinvigorate the debate about human beings and our place in the world following the fiasco of Copenhagen. Development, industry, progress, pollution, polar bears, democracy, choice – all will be discussed in depth here. Join the debate today!
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Hands off the human footprint!
Brendan O’Neill
Never mind our leaders’ cobbled-together Copenhagen Deal: read and support spiked’s Alternative Copenhagen Deal instead.
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27 October 2010
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Want to fix the climate? Cut the carbon obsession
Rob Lyons
Roger Pielke Jr, author of The Climate Fix, tells spiked why it’s wrong to focus on cutting emissions.
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A sideways step from climate panic to Malthus
Ben Pile
Recent statements by the Royal Society shows that it has turned from a scientific institution into a nakedly ideological one.
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30 September 2010
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Let’s make the ‘human footprint’ even bigger
Brendan O’Neill
In a speech in Gothenburg, spiked’s editor called for a rebellion against the ethics of environmentalism.
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17 August 2010
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Are we facing a second ‘Battle of Kingsnorth’?
Rob Lyons
The Lib-Cons are finally realising that green rhetoric is all well and good, but it doesn’t keep the lights on.
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2 August 2010
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The key lesson of the BP oil spill? Don’t panic
Rob Lyons
spiked’s prediction that this was not ‘the worst environmental disaster’ in US history has been proven right.
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19 July 2010
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An oily, underhand demand for censorship
Rob Lyons
Calling for ExxonMobil to stop funding climate-sceptic groups is really a demand that these groups be silenced.
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14 July 2010
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Energy crisis? We’ve been here before
Colin McInnes
Around 400 years ago, Britain faced another problem of dwindling energy resources: ‘peak wood’.
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22 June 2010
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Climate science after the ‘hockey stick’ affair
AW Montford
The use and abuse of a single graph to justify action on climate change shows the need for healthy scepticism.
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9 June 2010
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Meet the green who doubts ‘The Science’
Peter Taylor
The author of Chill explains why he’s sceptical about manmade global warming — and why greens are so intolerant.
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1 June 2010
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Six-and-a-half billion reasons to be cheerful
Tim Black
Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist, tells spiked why eco-catastrophists are so wrong about humans and our impact on the planet.
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24 May 2010
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We must stop saying ‘The science demands...’
Tim Black
Top climate-change expert Mike Hulme tells spiked it is a scandal that scientific claims are increasingly usurping politics and morality.
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12 May 2010
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The low Horizons of modern society
Rob Lyons
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is bad, but it is not a warning from nature about mankind's hubris.
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27 April 2010
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Let’s challenge these myths of Chernobyl
Rob Lyons
Much of today’s anti-nuclear hysteria is based on a misunderstanding of what happened in Ukraine.
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26 April 2010
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Why scepticism is still ‘the highest of duties’
Frank Furedi
Scepticism is widely denounced as a poison and a disease today, just as it was in the Dark Ages. We urgently need to rescue its reputation.
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15 April 2010
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Using the Holocaust to silence debate
Nathalie Rothschild
The campaign to make ‘ecocide’ a crime sums up the opportunism and censoriousness of the green lobby.
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17 February 2010
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The ‘taboo’ they just can’t stop talking about
Brendan O’Neill
Article after article after article now tells us that human overpopulation of the planet is the Great Unmentionable. Hmm, something doesn’t add up.
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9 February 2010
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Let’s pick apart this politics of doom
Ben Pile
‘Climategate’ confirms what many of us already knew: that claims of future catastrophe are political, not scientific.
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4 February 2010
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The IPCC: a Vatican for the twenty-first century?
Brendan O’Neill
The problem with the IPCC is not that some of its science is dodgy, but the fact that it elevates science per se above politics and democracy.
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19 January 2010
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When will the IPCC melt away?
Rob Lyons
News that Himalayan glaciers are not receding as quickly as claimed shows we need new ways to assess the evidence.
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6 January 2010
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Why Copenhagen was bound to fail
Ben Pile
With deep divisions within the green camp and little popular support without, Copenhagen could not succeed.
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21 December 2009
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This wasn’t realpolitik.
It was reality-politik
Frank Furedi
The idea that a PR, celebrity spectacle like Copenhagen could change the world is worse than naive – it’s ludicrous.
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The search for green meaning
Philip Hammond
For our confused and cut-off leaders, Copenhagen offered a chance to magic up some historic momentum.
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An insult to humanity
Dominic Lawson
Given humankind’s ingenuity, we would have no trouble adapting to a possible rise in global temperatures.
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