British energy landscape shifted a month ago, old media waking up now…
In the UK, gargantuan (as in wow!#$) amounts of cheap energy were discovered a month ago, yet it seemingly hasn’t changed the political landscape. (Or, then again, maybe it did? I gather no one in the...
View ArticleA big speech: Matt Ridley on scientific heresy and the temptations of...
Another notch on the winners tally board. It’s a mark of the times that one of the most popular, well known and respected science commentators is willing to to put his reputation and effort into...
View ArticlePR Wars: IPCC fights for relevance, halves warming, claims to be 95% certain...
We are over the peak. Years late, the IPCC concedes some territory and wears headlines they must hate (“Global warming is just HALF what we said“, “We got it wrong on warming“), but PR still rules,...
View ArticleMatt Ridley on Tamiflu-gate. Hidden data, omitted trials, “like the Hockey...
Matt Ridley looks at pharmaceutical research and finds problems of confirmation bias, lack of access to data, and lack of replication of results. He compares it to the hockey stick debacle which is...
View ArticleThe polarisation of the climate debate has gone too far, says Matt Ridley
Are we all intelligent adults in the room — can we discuss the weather without calling people names? The state of the national conversation is pathetic. Matt Ridley, best selling science writer, PhD,...
View ArticleMatt Ridley: Africa Needs To Be Rich – Rather Than Green
Matt Ridley: Africa Needs To Be Rich – Rather Than Green Some people pretend to care about the worlds poor and how they will be affected by a hypothetical climate shift decades in the future. But...
View ArticleThe Climate Wars are Damaging Science
Matt Ridley has produced the shortest whole, killer summary of the sordid state of climate science, science journalism, and science associations for Quadrant magazine. This is the ideal...
View ArticleArctic Sea Ice — it all melted before and it didn’t matter
Matt Ridley in The Australian explains how every man and his dog is forecasting the doom of the Arctic sea ice, and not only have they been wrong year after year, but they all assume that if the ice...
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