Schellnhuber, the iconic expert on climate change risk, tells the world how to quantify emergency, and fluffs it badly.

And the faithful didn’t like it

Why you can’t trust the scientific community to call out ill-motivated scientists

How an emergent scientific consensus can be just a dumb statistical effect that means little

Forget the taxonomies of denial. This is what climate change sceptics are really doing.

In which an expert on false expertise turns out to be false

Why it is important when criticising someone of cherry-picking to know what cherry-picking isn’t

Why have the Western media been so silent about NATO’s annual wargames in Ukraine and the Black Sea?

BBC fact-checkers and the group they condemn turn out to have more in common than either would wish to admit

The truth is fine but, when it comes to climate change, you can’t beat a damned good story.

The first in my next series of last articles

The BBC is there to lend its support when Global Witness takes on Facebook and its evil algorithms

What the Ghost of Kiev and the climate change narrative have in common

What’s so wrong about the way climate scientists think about risk and uncertainty? Lots, as it happens.

The very suggestion of trouble is considered to be anti-scientific. But why?

A tale of algal blooms, desperate fishermen and a half-baked investigation

When an expert goes rogue