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<title><![CDATA[Matt Ridley - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/25853.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Matt Ridley]]></description><category domain="25853">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Climate Cult Was a Terrible Mistake]]></title>
							<link>https://thespectator.com/topic/climate-politics-come-down-to-earth/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ridley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is not just Republicans who have given up on climate change: the Democratic party has stopped talking about it]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Suppression of Lab-Leak Theory the Mother of All Scandals]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/03/23/how-scientists-misled-the-world-about-covids-origins/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ridley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The suppression of the lab-leak theory is the mother of all Covid scandals.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Really Happened in Wuhan?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/12/31/what-really-happened-in-wuhan/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ridley</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Scientific Research Is in Crisis]]></title>
							<link>https://thespectator.com/topic/science-research-crisis-covid-peer-review-politics/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ridley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The real scandal is the gate-keeping, groupthink and bias that politicizes some fields of science, turning it into the dogma, 'the science']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Unraveling the 'Experts' Deception on Covid Lab-Leak]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-covid-lab-leak-deception-andersen-nih-research-paper-private-message-52fc0c16?mod=opinion_lead_pos5</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ridley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Scientists who signed a paper claiming a natural origin turn out not to have believed it themselves.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Climate Change Is Creating a Greener, Safer Planet]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/02/15/why-global-warming-is-good-for-us/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ridley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Global warming is real. It is also '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' so far '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' mostly beneficial. This startling fact is kept from the public by a determined effort on the part of alarmists and their media allies who are determined to use the language of crisis and emergency. The goal of Net Zero emissions in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Did Scientists Suppress the Lab-Leak Theory?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/01/12/why-did-scientists-suppress-the-lab-leak-theory/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ridley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In private, they said it was plausible. In public, they called it a conspiracy theory.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Covid Lab Leak Theory Just Got Even Stronger]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/wuhan-covid-lab-leak-theory-even-stronger/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ridley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In both Yunnan and Laos, the only people who knowingly transported bat virus samples to Wuhan '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and only to Wuhan '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' were scientists]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Opening Schools, Businesses Will Ease Suffering, Save Lives]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/students-catch-covid-saving-lives/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ridley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The extraordinary truth is that a student who contracts COVID-19 might be saving Grandma's life rather than threatening it]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Business Case for Brexit]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Business+Case+for+Brexit&amp;oq=The+Business+Case+for+Brexit&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.127j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ridley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Britain will thrive outside the EU, free from Brussels'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' regulation and empowered to cut its own trade deals.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Your Complete Guide to the Climate Debate]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ridley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In February President Obama said, a little carelessly, that climate change is a greater threat than terrorism. Next week he will be in Paris, a city terrorized yet again by mass murderers, for a summit with other world leaders on climate change, not terrorism. What precisely makes these...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Green Scare Problem]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Green+Scare+Problem&amp;oq=The+Green+Scare+Problem&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.95j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;es_sm=122&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ridley</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve heard these same stale arguments before,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' said President Obama in his speech on climate change last week, referring to those who worry that the Environmental Protection Agency'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s carbon-reduction plan may do more harm than good. The trouble is, we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve heard...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fossil Fuels Will Save the World (Really)]]></title>
							<link>http://www.wsj.com/articles/fossil-fuels-will-save-the-world-really-1426282420</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ridley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The environmental movement has advanced three arguments in recent years for giving up fossil fuels: (1) that we will soon run out of them anyway; (2) that alternative sources of energy will price them out of the marketplace; and (3) that we cannot afford the climate consequences of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[My Life as a Climate Lukewarmer]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/my-life-as-a-climate-lukewarmer.aspx</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ridley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I am a climate lukewarmer. That means I think recent global warming is real, mostly man-made and will continue but I no longer think it is likely to be dangerous and I think its slow and erratic progress so far is what we should expect in the future. That last year was the warmest yet,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Whatever Happened to Global Warming?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=Whatever+Happened+to+Global+Warming%3F&amp;rlz=1C1TSNP_enUS507US507&amp;oq=Whatever+Happened+to+Global+Warming%3F&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.80j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;es_sm=122&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ridley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Sept. 23 the United Nations will host a party for world leaders in New York to pledge urgent action against climate change. Yet leaders from China, India and Germany have already announced that they won't attend the summit and others are likely to follow, leaving President Obama...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The World's Resources Aren't Running Out]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304279904579517862612287156</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ridley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How many times have you heard that we humans are "using up" the world's resources, "running out" of oil, "reaching the limits" of the atmosphere's capacity to cope with pollution or "approaching the carrying capacity" of the land's ability to support a greater population? The assumption...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Climate Forecast: Muting the Alarm]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303725404579460973643962840?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop&amp;mg=reno64-wsj&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303725404579460973643962840.html%3Fmod%3DWSJ_Opinion_LEADTop</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ridley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will shortly publish the second part of its latest report, on the likely impact of climate change. Government representatives are meeting with scientists in Japan to sex up'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'sorry, rewrite'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'a summary of the scientists'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cooling the Fears of Climate Change]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323981504578179291222227104.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ridley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Forget the Doha climate jamboree that ended earlier this month. The theological discussions in Qatar of the arcana of climate treaties are irrelevant. By far the most important debate about climate change is taking place among scientists, on the issue of climate sensitivity: How much...]]></description>
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