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 [...]
A while ago I likened tackling climate change to the 1st World War. But an earlier struggle also offers important lessons. I’m talking about the abolition of strategy in the British Empire. Why? Because it is one of those rare moments in history when ethical arguments eventually trumped economic ones. At least that’s the argument [...]
The Great War was a moment when we threw the full force of the status quo at a problem that was the upshot of that status quo, and wound up in a petrified death hold.