It is perhaps no surprise that a climate change 'sceptic' has leaked a draft copy of the volume prepared by working group I for the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the final version of which is scheduled for publication in September...

A day is a very long time at the annual United Nations climate change summit, and especially so for British delegates this year here in Doha, Qatar.

On 4 December, the UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Ed Davey, made a positive announcement that his...

A new Energy Bill, which was introduced into UK Parliament on 29 November, has attracted some criticism for laying out plans to subsidise renewable power up to 2020, but has elicited little comment about its silence over the massive financial support that the Government continues to provide to...

Major cuts in the amount of funding that the Coalition Government is investing in the UK's world class science base are beginning to cause real damage, with the threatened end to one of our most important research institutions, the British Antarctic Survey.

The Survey has been responsible for

The Australian newspaper proved last week that the echo chamber of climate change denial is not restricted to the United States and United Kingdom.

On 4 September, the newspaper, owned by News Limited, the Australian arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation empire, published an article by Peter Lilley,...

There has been much confusion ahead of the next round of international negotiations on climate change, which start at the end of this month, over whether the United States has shifted its position on the inclusion of a temperature target in a new treaty that is due to...

The website of the Daily Mail, one of the UK's most popular daily newspapers, has proved once again that some parts of the Press are apparently oblivious to the scrutiny they are receiving from the Leveson Inquiry into their culture and practices following the phone hacking scandal.

Three months ago,...

It is now more than a year since the BBC Trust published a seminal report on the impartiality of the broadcaster's coverage of science, but there is clear evidence that it is still failing to address one of the main findings.

The author of the Trust's report, Steve...

In a previous blog, I outlined the role that a UK newspaper, the Daily Mail, had played in a recent demonstration of the distorting and amplifying effects of the echo chamber of climate change denial.

The newspaper's contribution had been to publish on its website an...

An assistant professor of geochemistry at Syracuse University is the latest victim of the echo chamber of climate change denial which is used to mislead the public about the results of academic research.

On 21 March, Syracuse University issued a media release to draw attention to

The Wall Street Journal last month published the latest in a series of inaccurate and misleading articles about climate change in the form of a lengthy editorial by 16 'sceptics', led by former French Education Minister Claude Allègre.

It represented the newspaper's attempt to draw a line under...

Recent editions of the right-wing magazine The Spectator have helped to clearly expose the utterly farcical failure of self-regulation of the British Press.

Two weeks ago, the magazine adorned the front cover of its 3 December 2011 issue with the eye-catching headline The Sea Level Scam: the rise and rise...

While the world's governments have been gathered in Durban, South Africa, between 29 November and 9 December to discuss co-ordinated international action against climate change, many TV viewers in the UK on 7 December were transfixed by powerful images of how warming is transforming the Earth's polar regions.

The final...

Self-proclaimed climate change 'sceptics' place great weight on those very occasional journal papers that they claim justify the rejection of mainstream research about the causes and consequences of global warming.

However, it is becoming increasingly obvious that these papers, which usually contain fundamental flaws and errors, only find their way...

A new paper by scientists at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, has been enthusiastically seized upon by some lobbyists and bloggers as a vindication of their claims that the cause of global warming is not the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities, but instead...

With the new school year underway next month, the Department for Education will begin consulting teachers about its plans to remove climate change from the national curriculum, which sets out the statutory programmes of study and attainment targets for pupils aged between 5 and 16 in state schools in England.

There was a startling demonstration last week of how quickly messages of climate change denial can spread from the United States to the United Kingdom.

The initial trigger was the publication of a paper by Roy Spencer and Danny Braswell of the University of Alabama in Huntsville in the journal...

With the Republican Party and a good many Democrats currently opposed to sanctioning any meaningful reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, United States climate policy, at least at federal level, appears stagnant at the moment.

So it is perhaps welcome that a new pamphlet called 'Climate Pragmatism: Innovation,...