“What’s COP?”, asked my friend last week. It’s a bit unfair of me to quote him: he lives abroad, where media coverage…
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aboutme What is success? COP26 and beyond
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aboutme A cure for climate change
Tonight the Royal Geographical Society hosts the launch of the book Culture and Climate Change: Scenarios, as part of their Geographical lates: COP25…
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aboutme The future will be both better and worse than we imagine
In July, I gave the most emotional talk I’ve ever given, and the one of which I’m most proud, based on…
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aboutme Extinction, empathy, endings, beginnings
Well, this tweet didn’t age well… A year later, I have 15,000 followers, while they have nearly a quarter of a…
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antarctica Too early to say whether the white cliffs of Antarctica are unstable
“Antarctica meltdown could double sea level rise”, went the headlines in 2016, “runaway melting” predicted by “alarming science”. They were reporting a…
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antarctica How soon will the ‘ice apocalypse’ come?
I’m very happy to return to blogging here at PLoS after a long…pause. I talk about why after this post, which was originally…
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boxquote Whether environmental modellers are wrong
[This is a comment invited by Issues in Science and Technology as a reply to the article “When All Models Are Wrong” in their Winter…
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decisionmaking Can we trust climate models?
I’m a climate modeller. Why would I invite a climate sceptic to the Cheltenham Science Festival to have a public discussion called…