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  1. Visit 'Green idealists most likely to take long-haul flights, says study' Guardian, Sep 24, 2008 'Green idealists most likely to take long-haul flights, says study' Guardian, Sep 24, 2008

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/sep/24/ethicalliving.recycling

    People who believe they have the greenest lifestyles can be seen as some of the main culprits behind global warming, says a team of [Exeter University] researchers, who claim that many ideas about sustainable living are a myth... Stewart Barr, of … More

  2. Visit 'In defence of particle physics' Professor David L Wark, BBC News, 10 September 2008 'In defence of particle physics' Professor David L Wark, BBC News, 10 September 2008

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7608803.stm

    In his Presidential Address, [Sir David King] gave a cogent and sobering assessment of the challenges facing our growing human population in the areas of resource management and climate change. ¶ While few would question his desire to tackle these… More

  3. Visit Audio: Analysis: To go green is glorious, BBC Radio 4, 10 Apr 2008 Audio: Analysis: To go green is glorious, BBC Radio 4, 10 Apr 2008

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/analysis/7340203.stm

    [Mukul Devichand visits Beijing to ask if the new green politics there is changing the totalitarian state.] Chinese government 'outsourcing' thinking about green issues. Some interviewees note that pollution in China comes from production for the … More

  4. Visit 'Philip Pullman: Kill humans and ration heating' Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 21st January 2008 'Philip Pullman: Kill humans and ration heating' Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 21st January 2008

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/21/philip_pullman_wartime_misery/

    This week, fantasy book author Philip Pullman will [call] for wartime austerity measures and top-down social control [in a book entitled Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth?]... Demanding strict state-controlled energy rationing, Pullman [notes t… More

  5. Visit 'Don't slavishly follow the white coats' Mick Hume, The Times, November 20, 2007 'Don't slavishly follow the white coats' Mick Hume, The Times, November 20, 2007

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/mick_hume/article2902866.ece

    It seems that every policy and initiative, from climate change to child obesity, now has to be based on what “the science tells us”... Discussions no longer start with a political leader telling us “This is what I believe in”... Scientists have no… More

  6. Visit 'A wake-up call' Jody Boehnert, Design Week, 31 October 2007 'A wake-up call' Jody Boehnert, Design Week, 31 October 2007

    http://www.designweek.co.uk/Articles/136518/A+wake-up+call.html

    We are in deep trouble. Yet, despite the fact that we have been toldwe are facing an unprecedented climate crisis, life goes on pretty much as it always has... we are perilously close to levels of carbon emissions that could soon hit a tipping poi… More

  7. Visit 'Science is the pursuit of the truth, not consensus' John Kay, Financial Times, October 9 2007 'Science is the pursuit of the truth, not consensus' John Kay, Financial Times, October 9 2007

    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c49c8472-767b-11dc-ad83-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1

    Lord Rees [president of the UK’s Royal Society] advocates that we should base policy on something called “the scientific consensus”, while acknowledging that such consensus may be provisional... [But] Consensus is a political concept, not a scient… More

  8. Visit 'It’s official: the masses are not gullible' James Woudhuysen, spiked, 16 August 2007 'It’s official: the masses are not gullible' James Woudhuysen, spiked, 16 August 2007

    http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/3731/

    In spring 2007, researchers commissioned by the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) interviewed 3,600 English people [for a survey of public attitudes and behaviours toward the environment]... The survey’s seemingly contr… More

  9. Visit 'An experiment that hints we are wrong on climate change' Nigel Calder, The Sunday Times, February 11, 2007 'An experiment that hints we are wrong on climate change' Nigel Calder, The Sunday Times, February 11, 2007

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1363818.ece

    When politicians and journalists declare that the science of global warming is settled, they show a regrettable ignorance about how science works... Twenty years ago, climate research became politicised in favour of one particular hypothesis, whic… More

  10. Visit 'Why green snitches will make us see red' Cristina Odone, The Observer, March 18, 2007 'Why green snitches will make us see red' Cristina Odone, The Observer, March 18, 2007

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2036807,00.html

    A brightly lit room used to spell a welcoming home, but now it signals profligate waste. Air miles, once the badge of globetrotting glamour, have become a stain of shame. An appliance that came on at the flick of a switch was considered enviable; … More

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