Climate change is real – get used to it!

If you were getting poorer and poorer, but last year you got poorer a bit more slowly than in previous years – would you be happy? The climate is warming – the 2000s were warmer than the 1990s (but not as much warmer as the 1990s were than the 1980s). This is the link to…

It’s about TB

After the decision to delay the badger-cull pilot study it might be that badgers are breathing a sigh of relief.  Except they won’t be because we don’t have in place effective measures to limit the spread of bovine TB in badgers and cattle and from one to the other (both ways!). One huge problem with…

Queen saves countryside, Steve Bell thinks not…

I do like Steve Bell’s Guardian cartoons – they usually make me laugh although I know they won’t be too everyone’s taste.  Was this one stimulated by the Sunday Express headline a few weeks ago  which stated that ‘Queen saves countryside’?             Would cormorant now be added to the list?…

2% of people are officially stupid

2% of the public are officially stupid. That’s the only explanation for the result of a recent YouGov poll where 2% of people rate David Cameron’s government as the ‘greenest government ever’.  Or perhaps, by chance, there were 35 Tory MPs in the random sample across the GB population. Given that David Cameron’s coalition government…

The home straight

You only have two weeks to join over 700 others in voting in the Nature of Harming ‘award’ – the results will be announced on April Fools’ Day. Although there is a clear leader, one candidate made a strong bid for your vote this week and it seems that another is planning to get your…