Richard Wellings
23 January 2009
The Conservative Party has proposed an alternative to the £9 billion expansion of Heathrow. A high-speed rail line would be constructed along the route London-Birmingham-Manchester-Leeds to...
Colin Robinson
29 December 2008
Politicians and ‘opinion leaders’ claim that damaging climate change is in prospect unless drastic centralised action is taken.
The prevailing view about climate change action is part of...
Richard Wellings
30 September 2008
Environmental scares have a long history. At the end of the 18th century, Thomas Malthus predicted that rapid population growth would lead to war, pestilence and famine. Almost 200 years later, the...
John Meadowcroft
25 September 2008
The Guardian’s environment editor, John Vidal, cannot resist a swipe at the IEA’s latest publication, Climate Change Policy: Challenging the Activists. Vidal doesn’t address any of...