Matt Ridley - Revision history

Matthew Pringle: category consolidation - changed 'Climate Sceptics' to 'Climate Change Sceptics'.

2019-12-10T16:19:11Z

category consolidation - changed 'Climate Sceptics' to 'Climate Change Sceptics'.

Melissa Jones: /* Affiliations */

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Affiliations

Melissa Jones at 03:30, 29 October 2014

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Melissa Jones: /* Northern Rock */

2014-10-29T03:25:17Z

Northern Rock

Melissa Jones: /* Northern Rock */

2014-10-29T03:23:25Z

Northern Rock

Melissa Jones at 03:18, 29 October 2014

2014-10-29T03:18:17Z

Melissa Jones: GWPF council member/ plus cat added

2014-04-08T05:18:56Z

GWPF council member/ plus cat added

Melissa Jones at 05:17, 8 April 2014

2014-04-08T05:17:40Z

Melissa Jones: /* Critic of green movement and links to corporate-funded think tanks */ typos

2014-04-08T05:03:24Z

Critic of green movement and links to corporate-funded think tanks: typos

Melissa Jones: Spectator IPPC spin article on adaptation added

2014-04-08T05:00:57Z

Spectator IPPC spin article on adaptation added

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−	[[Category:House of Lords\|Ridley, Matt]][[Category:GM\|Ridley, Matt]][[Category:Far-Right Think-Tanks (GM)\|Ridley, Matt]] [[Category:Pro-GM Lobbyists\|Ridley, Matt]][[Category:Climate Sceptics\|Ridley, Matt]]	+	[[Category:House of Lords\|Ridley, Matt]][[Category:GM\|Ridley, Matt]][[Category:Far-Right Think-Tanks (GM)\|Ridley, Matt]] [[Category:Pro-GM Lobbyists\|Ridley, Matt]][[Category:Climate Change Sceptics\|Ridley, Matt]]

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 *[[Spiked]] - shareholder
 *[[Global Warming Policy Foundation]] - ‘academic advisory council’ member <ref> GWPF website (undated) accessed 8 April 2014 </ref>
 ===Publications===

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−	'''Matt Ridley''' 5th Viscount Ridley is a journalist, businessman and Conservative member of the [[House of Lords]].	+	'''Matt Ridley''', 5th [[Viscount Ridley]], is a journalist, businessman and Conservative member of the [[House of Lords]]. <ref> [http://www.parliament.uk/documents/lords-information-office/2013/Conservative-Hereditary-Peers-by-election-result-Earl-Ferrers.pdf Conservative Hereditary Peers’ By-election, February 2013: Result], House of Lords, acc 29 October 2014. The vote followed the death of [[Earl Ferrers]] </ref>

	Ridley was chairman of [[Northern Rock]] from 2004 to 2007, resigning after Northern Rock experienced the first run on a British bank in 150 years.		Ridley was chairman of [[Northern Rock]] from 2004 to 2007, resigning after Northern Rock experienced the first run on a British bank in 150 years.

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 The committee however begged to differ. It concluded that:
 :The directors of Northern Rock were the principal authors of the difficulties that the company has faced since August 2007.
-:The high-risk, reckless business strategy of Northern Rock, with its reliance on short- and medium-term wholesale funding and an absence of sufficient insurance and a failure to arrange standby facility or cover that risk, meant that it was unable to cope with the liquidity pressures placed upon it by the freezing of international capital markets in August 2007. <ref> [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmselect/cmtreasy/56/56i.pdf HC 56–I House of Commons Treasury Committee report 'The run on the Rock', Fifth Report of Session 2007–08, [Incorporating HC 999 i–iv, Session 2006-07], Published on Saturday 26 January 2008 by authority of the House of Commons London: The Stationery Office Limited </ref> <ref> See also YouTube video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUOap5TLkqY John McFall questions former Northern Rock Chairman Matt Ridley - House of Commons Treasury Committee, 16 Oct 07] Parliamentary Copyright </ref>
+:The high-risk, reckless business strategy of Northern Rock, with its reliance on short- and medium-term wholesale funding and an absence of sufficient insurance and a failure to arrange standby facility or cover that risk, meant that it was unable to cope with the liquidity pressures placed upon it by the freezing of international capital markets in August 2007. <ref> [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmselect/cmtreasy/56/56i.pdf HC 56–I House of Commons Treasury Committee report 'The run on the Rock', Fifth Report of Session 2007–08, [Incorporating HC 999 i–iv, Session 2006-07], Published on Saturday 26 January 2008 by authority of the House of Commons London: The Stationery Office Limited, pp 18-19. </ref> <ref> See also YouTube video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUOap5TLkqY John McFall questions former Northern Rock Chairman Matt Ridley - House of Commons Treasury Committee, 16 Oct 07] Parliamentary Copyright </ref>
 ==Affiliations, publications, contact, notes==

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 ==Northern Rock==
 Ridley was non-executive chairman of failed British bank [[Northern Rock]] in 2007 when it was taken into administration after a run on its finances. Ridley told the Treasury Select Committee investigating Northern Rock's collapse that the bank had been hit by "wholly unexpected" events and he defended the way he and his colleagues had been running the bank.<ref>"[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7052828.stm Northern Rock chairman steps down]", BBC News Online, 19 October 2007, accessed 3 April 2009</ref>
 ==Affiliations, publications, contact, notes==

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-'''Matt Ridley''' studied zoology at Oxford before becoming a journalist. He was science editor and American editor of the ''Economist'' from 1983 to 1992, and was a regular columnist for the ''Sunday Telegraph'' and ''Daily Telegraph'' from 1993 to 2000. He is the author of a number of science-related books.
+'''Matt Ridley''' 5th Viscount Ridley is a journalist, businessman and Conservative member of the [[House of Lords]].
 Ridley is chairman of the [http://www.life.org.uk./ International Centre for Life], a multi-million pound 'science park and education project' to 'foster the life sciences', that opened in May 2000 in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He is also a director of a number of companies and is on the Advisory Council of the controversial pro-GM lobby group [[Sense About Science]]. He has an association with the libertarian and anti-environmental [[LM network]] via being a shareholder of [[Spiked]].
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-[[Category:GM|Ridley, Matt]][[Category:Far-Right Think-Tanks (GM)|Ridley, Matt]]
+[[Category:House of Lords|Ridley, Matt]][[Category:GM|Ridley, Matt]][[Category:Far-Right Think-Tanks (GM)|Ridley, Matt]] [[Category:Pro-GM Lobbyists|Ridley, Matt]][[Category:Climate Sceptics|Ridley, Matt]]

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-'''Matt Ridley''' studied zoology at Oxford before becoming a journalist. He was science editor and American editor of the Economist from 1983 to 1992, and was a regular columnist for the ''Sunday Telegraph'' and ''Daily Telegraph'' from 1993 to 2000. He is the author of a number of science-related books.
+'''Matt Ridley''' studied zoology at Oxford before becoming a journalist. He was science editor and American editor of the ''Economist'' from 1983 to 1992, and was a regular columnist for the ''Sunday Telegraph'' and ''Daily Telegraph'' from 1993 to 2000. He is the author of a number of science-related books.
 Ridley is chairman of the [http://www.life.org.uk./ International Centre for Life], a multi-million pound 'science park and education project' to 'foster the life sciences', that opened in May 2000 in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He is also a director of a number of companies and is on the Advisory Council of the controversial pro-GM lobby group [[Sense About Science]]. He has an association with the libertarian and anti-environmental [[LM network]] via being a shareholder of [[Spiked]].
 ==Critic of green movement and links to corporate-funded think tanks==
 Ridley's writing has contributed to the anti-Green backlash. Starting in 1995, a series of volumes based on his Down to Earth columns in the ''Sunday Telegraph'' were published as ''Down to Earth: A contrarian view of environmental problems''; ''Down to Earth, Combating Environmental Myth''; etc.
-The first volume of Down to Earth appeared at almost the same time as Wilfred Beckerman's ''Small is Stupid'' and Richard D. North's ''Life on a Modern Planet''. All three books attacked the environmental movement.
+The first volume of ''Down to Earth'' appeared at almost the same time as Wilfred Beckerman's ''Small is Stupid'' and Richard D. North's ''Life on a Modern Planet''. All three books attacked the environmental movement.
 In ''Down to Earth'' Ridley labelled environmentalists 'Gestapo'. Like other contrarians, he attacked the science of climate change and what he termed 'ozone exaggeration'. According to Ridley, many 'green' arguments are just socialist ones in new clothing. Ridley maintained the same tone in his ''Daily Telegraph'' Acid Test columns where he railed against 'The mad mullahs of ecology'.
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-[[Category:Pro-GM Lobbyists|Ridley, Matt]]
+[[Category:Pro-GM Lobbyists|Ridley, Matt]][[Category:Climate sceptics|Ridley, Matt]]

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 Ridley's writing has contributed to the anti-Green backlash. Starting in 1995, a series of volumes based on his Down to Earth columns in the ''Sunday Telegraph'' were published as ''Down to Earth: A contrarian view of environmental problems''; ''Down to Earth, Combating Environmental Myth''; etc.
-The first volume of Down to Earth appeared at almost the same time as Wilfred Beckerman's ''Small is Stupid'' and Richard D. North's ''Life on a Modern Planet''. All 3 books attacked the environmental movement.
+The first volume of Down to Earth appeared at almost the same time as Wilfred Beckerman's ''Small is Stupid'' and Richard D. North's ''Life on a Modern Planet''. All three books attacked the environmental movement.
-In ''Down to Earth'' Ridley labelled environmentalists 'Gestapo'. Like other contrarians, he attacked the science of climate change and what he termed 'ozone exagerration'. According to Ridley, many 'green' arguments are just socialist ones in new clothing. Ridley maintained the same tone in his Daily Telegraph Acid Test columns where he railed against The mad mullahs of ecology.
+In ''Down to Earth'' Ridley labelled environmentalists 'Gestapo'. Like other contrarians, he attacked the science of climate change and what he termed 'ozone exaggeration'. According to Ridley, many 'green' arguments are just socialist ones in new clothing. Ridley maintained the same tone in his ''Daily Telegraph'' Acid Test columns where he railed against 'The mad mullahs of ecology'.
-Like Beckermann and North, Ridley links to London's far-right [[Institute of Economic Affairs]], where he is a Research Fellow and which was the publisher of his Down to Earth books. In August 1999 Ridley used one of his Telegraph columns to hype a book (Fearing Food) which was edited by the directors of the IEA's Environment Unit [[Roger Bate]] and [[Julian Morris]].
+Like Beckermann and North, Ridley has links to London's far-right [[Institute of Economic Affairs]], where he is a Research Fellow and which was the publisher of his Down to Earth books. In August 1999 Ridley used one of his Telegraph columns to hype a book (Fearing Food) which was edited by the directors of the IEA's Environment Unit [[Roger Bate]] and [[Julian Morris]].
 In [http://www.junkscience.com/aug99/foodsurv.htm Unsavoury facts about organic food] (Daily Telegraph, 16 Aug 1999) Ridley took the opportunity to repeat [[Dennis Avery]]&#39;s E. coli myth: 'according to the United States Centers for Disease Control, people who eat the products of...[organic agriculture] are eight times more likely to contract the strain of E-coli that killed 21 people in Lanarkshire in 1997'. This in spite of the fact that Centers for Disease Control had issued a press release in response to Avery's claims stating, 'The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not conducted any study that compares or quantitates the specific risk for infection with E. coli 0157:H7 and eating either conventionally grown or organic/natural foods.'

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 Ridley is chairman of the [http://www.life.org.uk./ International Centre for Life], a multi-million pound 'science park and education project' to 'foster the life sciences', that opened in May 2000 in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He is also a director of a number of companies and is on the Advisory Council of the controversial pro-GM lobby group [[Sense About Science]]. He has an association with the libertarian and anti-environmental [[LM network]] via being a shareholder of [[Spiked]].
-==Critic or green movement and links to corporate funded think tanks==
+==Critic of green movement and links to corporate-funded think tanks==
 Ridley's writing has contributed to the anti-Green backlash. Starting in 1995, a series of volumes based on his Down to Earth columns in the ''Sunday Telegraph'' were published as ''Down to Earth: A contrarian view of environmental problems''; ''Down to Earth, Combating Environmental Myth''; etc.
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 *[[Sense About Science]] - member of advisory council as of 2009
 *[[Spiked]] - shareholder
 ===Publications===
 *[[Matt Ridley]] 'Genetically modified crops and the perils of rejecting innovation' in [[James Panton]] and [[Oliver Marc Hartwich]] (Eds) ''Science vs superstition: the case for a new scientific enlightenment'', London/buckingham: [[Policy Exchange]]//[[University of Buckingham Press]], 2006.
 *The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves Published: May 2010.