Two books on my summer reading list are causing my consternation. One is Beinhocker’s ‘Origin of Wealth’; the other is Jackson’s ‘Prosperity without Growth’. In different ways, both play into a current obsession of mine: that economics is a big part of what is stopping transformation in the climate change context. The title of Tim [...]
Previously I’ve talked about Climategate as akin to what happened to Monsanto in the backlash agains genetically modified foods, or to the dubious science used to link MMR vaccines to autism. But my favourite interpretation that Climategate is a Tiger Woods moment. Tiger Woods is a great golfer: the best of his generation. But Tiger [...]
The other week I went to a seminar by Jerry Ravetz where there was an unnerving degree of consensus that the International Panel on Climate Change and the UEA’s work on climate change had been ‘discredited’, and that the belief in anthropogenic climate change was ‘unravelling’ because ‘so much of the science was unsound.’ The [...]