The cracks start without you noticing. You hadn’t been paying attention: you’d been looking at problems elsewhere, at more immediate emergencies. You…
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antarctica The things we take for grantedRead more
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aboutme What is success? COP26 and beyondRead more
“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 Burned out, but still burningRead more
You’re tired. You’re burned out. You don’t know how you keep getting up in the morning, keep switching on the news, keep…
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aboutme Searching for green shootsRead more
In an instant, my life is no longer under my control. I become a little institutionalised at home, reluctant to leave…
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aboutme A cure for climate changeRead more
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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antarctica Polar ThinkingRead more
This is a good news, bad news story. I’ve been thinking about this theme a lot recently. So much of our…
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antarctica Too early to say whether the white cliffs of Antarctica are unstableRead more
“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?Read more
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 How to love uncertainty in climate scienceRead more
This is the script of my TEDxCERN talk, a 12-13 minute talk I did from memory. When the video is put online…
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aboutme Open to positive feedbackRead more
I’m extremely happy to say that on the 1st October I’ll be taking up a lectureship at the Open University! I’ll be…
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boxquote Whether environmental modellers are wrongRead more
[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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blogging Pause for thoughtRead more
Ed Hawkins, Doug McNeall and I have just had a commentary published called Pause for Thought. It’s part of a Nature Focus…