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So there's an election on tomorrow (May 6). You may have heard. The consensus in the media is that young people in the UK don't really care about politics. If you believed what you read in the papers, you'd think the current generation were more interested in snorting mephedrone and stabbing each other than in voting. We thought that was a bit unfair, so we conducted a bit of research of our own.
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At one point in time the USA may have been viewed as the preeminent world leader on major financial issues. While many arrogant bankers, regulators, and political leaders here in the USA might care to continue to believe they hold t... Read Post

Whither the weather? As you may have heard, a conference of national forecasters assembled this week in Exeter: to discuss the future of the British climate, following the spate of harsher than expected winters, and unusually wet su... Read Post

Kate Sheppard believes that the Great Recession has benefited climate skeptics: In a paper published in May in the journal Global Environmental Change, University of Connecticut political scientist Lyle Scruggs laid out the case tha... Read Post