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 granted
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aboutme What is success? COP26 and beyond
“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 burning
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 shoots
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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antarctica The Antarctic Peninsula under a 1.5°C global warming scenario
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 Seeing Antarctica’s future more clearly
Are you a details person? Do you love to lose yourself in little things? To read every footnote of a book, watch…
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media Climate Change By Numbers
Happy New Year (er…)! Sorry for the total lack of posts since September – I’ve been busy settling into my new lectureship…
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ice2sea No need to worry about Greenland’s waterslides
We’ve had a new study published about the slippery slopes of Greenland. If we’re right they’re not as slippery – and therefore…
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ice2sea From Ice to High Seas
My project ice2sea is currently in the news. For example, the BBC: ‘Best estimate’ for impact of melting ice on sea level rise. Ice2sea…
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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…