Online lecture by Matt Ridley
In a recent leader in the “Spectator” magazine, Matt declared that “Finally, thankfully, the global warming craze is dying out. To paraphrase Monty Python, the climate parrot may still be nailed to its perch at the recent COP summit in Belem, Brazil – or at Harvard and on CNN – but elsewhere it’s dead. By failing to secure new pledges for a cut in fossil fuels, COP achieved less than nothing”. He notes that Bill Gates’s recent apologia, in which he conceded that global warming “will not lead to humanity’s demise” after he closed the policy and advocacy office of his climate philanthropy group, as the latest nail in the climate scare coffin. But the climatastrophe has been a terrible mistake. It has diverted attention from real environmental problems, cost a fortune, impoverished consumers, perpetuated indoor pollution and poverty, frightened young people into infertility, wasted years of our time, undermined democracy and corrupted science. But how can we now undo that damage, despite continuing attempts to perpetuate it by IPCC and NGOs? That burning question will be the key topic of this seminal lecture, which will doubtless lead to a highly animated Q&A and discussion.
Event details
- Date: 1 April 2026
- Location: online
- Entrance fee: request via email jim@jimobriencsr.com
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Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley, is a noted British science writer, journalist and businessman. With BA and DPhil degrees in Zoology from Oxford University, he worked for the Economist for nine years. He sat in the House of Lords between 2013 and 2021 and served on the science and technology select committee and the artificial intelligence select committee. He was founding chairman of the International Centre for Life in Newcastle. He created the Mind and Matter column in the Wall Street Journal in 2010, and was a columnist for the Times 2013-2018. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Matt Ridley’s books have sold over a million copies, been translated into 31 languages and won several awards. His earlier books include “The Red Queen, Genome, The Rational Optimist” and “How Innovation Works”. His book “Viral: the search for the Origin of Covid-19”, coauthored with Alina Chan, was published in 2021, and his latest work “Birds, Sex and Beauty” was published in 2025.
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