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Finding a healthy alternative to the prevailing growth model that has strained the planet to bursting is the holy grail of environmental economics. And it looks like maybe we've found it. George Monbiot, the most dynamic...

As more evidence linking animal agriculture and climate change mounts, the omnivore’s dilemma intensifies. Now, one of the world’s leading environmentalists is tipping the scales a bit more, by claiming that free-range...

Should Michael Mann be given the electric chair for having concocted arguably the most risibly inept, misleading, cherry-picking, worthless and mendacious graph – the Hockey Stick – in the history of junk science?...

The UK's BBC, otherwise known as the Biased Broadcasting Corporation, last week made an unfounded accusation of child abuse against a senior Conservative figure in its flagship Newsnight programme...

Forget the Higgs Boson, Josh has bigger fish to fry. … inspired by various articles, particularly James Delingpole’s, and comments following George Monbiot’s admission that he got Peak Oil wrong.

Until recently George "Reverse-Cassandra" Monbiot was very, very worried about Peak Oil. Here's what he wrote in 2007: The disasters invoked by the peaking of global oil supplies can be avoided only with a “crash progamme”...

Many of the most brilliant Right-wing politicians, journalists and polemicists started out on the Left: Ronald Reagan, Christopher Hitchens, Peter Hitchens, Paul Johnson, David Horowitz, Martin Amis, Toby Young, Clive James,...

Josh of cartoonsbyjosh.com writes: There is a wonderful George Monbiot article here… http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2012/jan/26/weather-forecasters-daily-mail …on how the Daily Mail hired...

From Bishop Hill, such a short story that it is difficult to excerpt, and given the importance, and the continuation reference to the story I broke on WUWT, I don’t think he’ll mind if I repost in entirety...

Top environmental campaigner George Monbiot has publicly disclosed his laundry list in order to show how transparent he is. This is a comprehensive list of my sources of income, and any hospitality or gifts I receive (except...

UPDATE: About an hour after this story was posted, Monbiot backs down, see below. – Anthony =========================================== Sheesh, can’t these people read? I find the timing of this more than coincidental....

The first thing I thought of when I heard about  the new US Postal Service “green stamps” was this logo at right. I suppose I’ve dated myself identifying this, but I can’t help it. For the baby boomer...

This is strong language from Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.  who wrote to me and suggested I share this with my readers. After getting slimed by Joe Romm for the nth time, he finally had enough. He writes: It is long … Continue...

The president of General Electric slams his previous company green policy as being “too elitist”, vows to get back to “working”...

Haunting the Library writes: Just one year to go to check on the accuracy of this prediction, claimed by warming proponent George Monbiot in 2002: Within as little as 10 years, the world will be faced with a choice: arable...