Can the conversation around climate change all too often get heated, hysterical, and panicked? Should we be appealing for more calm in the climate debate? In the first of this mini podcast series featuring Bjorn Lomborg and Matt Ridley, host Kate Andrews challenges Bjorn and Matt on their views over the best way to conduct […]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union’s long-awaited plan to curb emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane will not impose binding standards on natural gas sold in the bloc, according to a draft seen by Reuters. Methane is nearly 90 times more potent than CO2 in its first 20 years in the atmosphere, and is […]

Climate activists like Greta Thunberg are having to grapple with their sudden loss of relevance in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Sky News host Andrew Bolt.

Even as Democrats place climate change at the forefront of their election strategy, polls show the novel coronavirus pandemic is taking the wind out of the climate issue’s sails. A Harris Poll survey conducted for Fortune found that climate change has dropped since December from first to second-to-last on a list of a dozen issues […]

Battered by pandemic and economic collapse, do Americans have the capacity to care about climate change? Not so much, judging by a national poll we just conducted.  We asked a panel of U.S. adults a series of questions about today’s most crucial issues, environmental policy options, and their own behavior. In all three categories, I […]

Without the protection of free thought and discussion, scientific work cannot proceed. We need to share ideas, opinions, and perspectives to allow for the uncovering of truth, not suppress it. As America’s political middle ground gives way to sharp left-right divisions and even violence, there are winners and losers in the war on ideas. What […]

The bulk of air travel was 200,000 short-haul domestic trips from Berlin — a revelation that runs contrary to Angela Merkel’s call on Germans to curb CO2 emissions. German federal government employees and civil servants traveled by plane 10% more in 2019 than the year before, newspaper Welt am Sonntag reported on Sunday, citing data from the Environment […]

Ireland’s supreme court quashed a government plan to tackle climate change on Friday, finding the blueprint for transition to a low carbon, sustainable economy by 2050 lacked specific detail. The government will now be forced to redraft its plan. The legal challenge, brought by Friends of the Irish Environment, contended a 2017 government climate action scheme breached […]