The Israeli-U.S. startup Stardust Solutions announced last week that it raised $60 million in venture capital in its latest funding round – the largest venture investment to date for a for-profit company developing solar geoengineering technology, particularly injection of reflective particles into the stratosphere. Advocates of solar geoengineering are dismayed. But why are they surprised? […]
Twenty-five years ago today, on Thursday 9 November 2000, over 250 guests assembled at the University of East Anglia (UEA) to mark the official ‘opening’ of the newly-funded Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. The Centre was opened by the UK’s Environment Minister, Labour MP Michael Meacher (1939-2015), and took place in the middle of […]
Bill Gates’ recent open letter to those gathering at Belem for COP30 in mid-November has caused a stir. Here are his three truths: I fully agree. It’s almost as if he has been reading my 2023 book ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything: Liberating Climate Politics from Alarmism‘, where I make very similar points; or perhaps he […]
Published today in Environmental Research Letters Authored by Ingrid Boas, Harald Sterly, Carol Farbotko, Mike Hulme and 29 co-authors Abstract As climate change intensifies, scientific and policy discussions increasingly address questions of future habitability and potential population movements. In this perspective, we caution against premature or top-down characterizations of areas as uninhabitable, or portrayals of […]
