“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 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 Half the world’s future
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 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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antarctica Polar Thinking
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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definitions Possible futures
This is the final part of a series of introductory posts about the principles of climate modelling. Others in the series: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4…