Al Gore rarely takes questions from journalists. When he does, he only wants to take certain questions. Here’s what happens when the wrong type of question gets asked by Phelim McAleer, the Iris... Read More

The BBC’s change of mind over global warming has upset the journal Nature, whose blog accuses the Beeb of lending credibility to sceptics by admitting that the planet stopped heating up in 1998 ... Read More

I’ve just had an email from someone signing herself Jo Abbess Bsc wanting to know whether I did a science degree. She has written it up at her online-CV-cum-website. Jo who? The name rang a vagu... Read More

Uh-oh. Gordon Brown has a plan. He wants the world’s leaders to gatecrash the UN meeting of environment ministers in Copenhagen and sign up to a draconian, anti-growth agreement that could destr... Read More

You would not normally class them as green activists, but a clutch (if that’s the collective noun) of the world’s biggest financial institutions has just demanded drastic cuts in the emissions tha... Read More

Taking pictures of police in China is generally not to be advised, but an exception is made for Dalian’s ‘mounties’, who are an all-female force (though I can’t speak for the horses) who were... Read More

“Soft days” as the Irish call them – ones with light rainfall – are particularly valuable for farming.While heavy rains tend to run straight off the land into rivers and streams – often carr... Read More

I’ve always suspected this. There can be only one logical conclusion to the anthropogenic global warming campaign: eliminate human beings. Or, at least, reduce to a minimum their number on the ... Read More

We’ve heard a lot this summer about the hateful rhetoric emanating from Right-wingers at health care town halls across the country. Just yesterday, I got an email from President Barack Obama’s ... Read More

I woke this morning to 30-plus degree heat, 74 per cent humidity, the whir of neighbours’ air-conditioners, the sound of Middle Class India’s cant. There are less than a hundred days to th... Read More