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| Friday 30 May 2008 |
Shooting down the enemies of progress
Environmentalists argue that the debate about global warming is done and dusted, and we now have no choice but to rein in development and shrink the ‘human footprint’. Two powerful new books beg to differ.
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| Friday 7 March 2008 |
The King of ‘Climate Porn’
A new book by David King, the UK government’s former chief scientific adviser, sheds more heat than light on the global warming debate.
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| Friday 29 February 2008 |
The King of ‘Climate Porn’
A new book by the UK government’s former chief scientific adviser sheds yet more heat than light on the global warming debate – despite its promises of balance.
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| Friday 11 January 2008 |
Climate catastrophe? Cool it!
In his new book, Bjørn Lomborg shows how the ‘climate science’ on everything from polar bears to pollution has been politicised.
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| Friday 21 December 2007 |
Return of the Skeptical Environmentalist
In his new book Cool It, Bjørn Lomborg shows how ‘the science’ on global warming – covering everything from polar bear extinction to the disappearance of Greenland – has been distorted and politicised.
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| Monday 15 October 2007 |
IPCC: the dangers of enforcing ‘consensus’
While appearing to be the ultimate experts on global warming, the UN's climate panel has actually distorted public discussion of the issue.
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| Thursday 28 June 2007 |
Digging up the roots of the IPCC
The UN's all-powerful climate change panel is no straightforward scientific body. It is a deeply political organisation that was born out of disenchantment with progress.
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| Friday 19 January 2007 |
Behind the IVF ‘trial by television’
There is more to the HFEA regulators' pursuit of top infertility doctor Mohamed Taranissi than meets the viewer's eye.
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| Thursday 27 November 2003 |
Bird-brained theories
Is modern farming chasing birds from the hedgerows?
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| Friday 17 October 2003 |
GM crop trials: Why?
The GM issue is not about how many butterflies can fit on a beet leaf.
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| Friday 6 December 2002 |
Four legs better?
What the animal research debate tells us about humans.
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| Thursday 14 February 2002 |
GM food: putting fear before facts
The Royal Society, the UK's premier scientific body, thinks GM food is safe. So why did its report spin such scary headlines?
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