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 Half the world’s futureRead more
GRETA, says the text, and two hands grip the pigtails behind the girl’s naked body. What clearer threat to girls and…
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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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aboutme The future will be both better and worse than we imagineRead more
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, beginningsRead more
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 The Antarctic Peninsula under a 1.5°C global warming scenarioRead more
After the accidental disappearing of my blog (and, ironically, the temporary disappearance of that link), today is a minor “relaunch” with a…
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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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aboutme On staying localRead more
Image credit: The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust. In climate science, I’ve always worked with the big picture. First, global…