This observation, famously made by Talleyrand at the Congress of Vienna as the powers debated the fate of the turncoat King of Saxony, reminded the crowned heads of Europe that all of them had at one time or another worked with Napoleon. Talleyrand himself had served the emperor as foreign minister and trusted ally before switching to the other...

A volatile mix of science and politics has ignited a backlash against climate science in the United States and United Kingdom. The exposure of e-mails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in Norwich, UK, last November, and the subsequent discovery of errors and distortions in the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental...

In my last blog I noted that Benny Peiser and Sir John Houghton were having an argument in The Observer about something regarding man-made global warming that Sir John might, or might not, have said.

To recap, Peiser had quoted Sir John as saying “Unless we announce disasters no one will listen”. Sir John, in a letter to the Observer (14...

The Copenhagen fiasco combined with the crisis of credibility afflicting climate science offers progressives a vital opportunity to inject a much needed dose of realism into the politics of climate change. The adoption of a radical green agenda that will have large-scale detrimental effects on the poorer segments of our societies, while...