Book Projects

The results of the ADAM Project will be published through a mini-series of four books from Cambridge University Press.  The first of these – the synthesis volume, Making Climate Change Work For Us – is now published (see below), and the three other books will appear from CUP early in 2010: Global Climate Governance Beyond 2012 (eds. Biermann et al.), […]

Op-eds on science and politics

(3 December)  THE SCIENCE AND POLITICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE.  Read my reflections on the relationship between the science and politics of climate change in this Wall Street Journal op-ed and a second take on the same matter in The Guardian newspaper, ‘Laboratories’ Outer Limits’.

‘All in the mind’

ALL IN THE MIND.  Listen to this discussion on Australian national radio about my book, Why We Disagree About Climate Change.  I join anthropologist Jonathan Marshall and presenter Natasha Mitchell to discuss mythology, mental ecology and a changing climate.  Full transcript available.

‘Believing’ in climate change

(November)  WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO ‘BELIEVE’ IN CLIMATE CHANGE?  Read my reflections on the seminal UK legal case of Nicholson vs Grainger plc. in which an employment tribunal judge, Justice Sir Michael Burton, ruled on whether or not belief in climate change can be deemed to be ‘philosophical’.