My 1994 ‘Climate Book of the Year’

Cover of the 1994 Climate Book titled "The Economics of Climate Change" by William D. Nordhaus. The background blends green and blue tones, echoing the environmental themes within.

Nordhaus,W.D. (1994) Managing the Global Commons: The Economics of Climate Change. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 213pp. This essay continues my series of monthly posts in which I select one ‘climate’ book to highlight and review from one of the 44 years of my professional career in climate research (starting with 1984, my first year of […]

‘IPCC-envy’: Why do other science-policy issues want an IPCC, and should they?

The academic publisher Sage, have launched a new climate journal, titled ‘Dialogues on Climate Change‘, edited by Dr Rob Bellamy at the University of Manchester. I was invited to write a short essay about the IPCC for the inaugural issue and this has now been published. I reproduce the abstract below: “The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel […]

The cover of the 1993 climate book, "The Global Greenhouse Regime," features purple text on a vibrant yellow background adorned with abstract diagonal lines.

My 1993 ‘Climate Book of the Year’

Hayes,P. and Smith,K.R. (eds.) (1993) The Global Greenhouse Regime: Who Pays? Science, Economics and North-South Politics in the Climate Change Convention. Tokyo/London: UNU Press/Earthscan. 382pp.  This essay continues my series of monthly posts in which I select one ‘climate’...

‘There is no climate niche’

Co-written with colleagues Jan Selby and Wolfgang Cramer, you can read the full essay in the July issue of One Earth … “The idea that there exists a ‘human climate niche’ has become increasingly influential. But this idea rests on flawed and anachronistic determinist premises. It is overly climate-centric in its characterization of the challenges […]