Environment | Standpoint Magazine

Weathering The Storm

Global Crisis by Geoffrey Parker is a masterpiece of historical scholarship, but fails entirely in its stated aim of linking political disaster to a changing climate

March 26, 2013

Books·Environment

ONLINE ONLY: Will Shale Gas Save the British Economy?

A tax windfall from fracking in the North East would merely delay the inevitable day of reckoning for a bloated public sector

January 28, 2013

Economy·Energy·Environment·Features·UK Politics

Planet Mirth

Matthew Sinclair's new book, Let Them Eat Carbon, rightly draws attention to the foibles of climate change policy, rather than the global warming debate itself

September 27, 2011

Counterpoints·Environment

Hullabaloo in the Great Karoo

South Africa’s desert is a battleground between astronomers and gas companies

May 24, 2011

Cosmos·Environment·Science

The Drumming of an Army

The Australian floods were encapsulated by underrated national poet, Dorothea Mackellar, whose poem "My Country" best captured the post-diluvian mood

February 22, 2011

Australasia·Critique·Environment

Idol Worship in Cancún

The climate change cause is a vehicle for world government, social control and Western self-flagellation

December 16, 2010

Counterpoints·Energy·Environment

Renewables Won’t Keep the Lights On

If you thought that wind power would be affordable, think again

December 16, 2010

Energy·Environment·Features

Busy Old Foolery

With advances in technology, we are learning more and more about the way the Sun is developing

October 22, 2010

Cosmos·Environment·Science

Walking the Plank

The government's hypocrisy over "green issues" is forcing those living on our waterways out of their homes

May 21, 2010

Counterpoints·Environment·UK Politics

Beyond Climate Hubris

An open letter to Chris Huhne calls for a new pragmatic approach to rebuild public trust

May 21, 2010

Energy·Environment·Features

Plane Crazy

The recent air space shutdown has highlighted that only mad dogs and Englishmen would acquiesce to the aural torture of living under flight paths

April 27, 2010

Counterpoints·Environment

Experts and Axioms

When politics has entered the scientific debate over climate change, how can we trust the experts? Is the world getting hotter, and are humans responsible? Two questions there, and I don’t know

December 14, 2009

Counterpoints·Environment·Science