This is what I think should happen now that we have a hung parliament: A Labour/Lib Dem coalition seems like the best solution for the country, with the understanding that there will be another election in the near future. Gordon Brown has to go. The vast majority of the electorate will be fuming if he remains ...

I've been having an interesting Twitter conversation with the UK Department for Energy and Climate Change. I say 'conversation', when what I really mean is that they replied once to point me to some documents online, and I bombarded their Twitter account with a barrage of messages. Tom Raftery also came ...

This morning I read an article on the Guardian entitled 'Save the Planet. But maybe not right now'. At first I thought that the article had some merit, but then I went back and read this comment, which made me laugh, and makes absolute sense, so I thought I'd reproduce it ...

Yesterday, I watched the Ad Hoc Science and Technology Committee hearing about "The disclosure of climate data from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia". This is the result of so-called "Climategate" when the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit emails were hacked. You can watch a recording ...

I've just had the rather surreal experience of reading Simon Hoggart's column in Saturday's Guardian, in which he poses the question: "Is climate change the new faith?", with the strapline "Fanatics must stop playing fast and loose with global warming data". He goes on to describe himself as 'agnostic', and ...