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 […]
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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’...
My 1992 ‘Climate Book of the Year’
Maunder,W.J. (1992) Dictionary of Global Climate Change. [1st edn.] London: UCL Press. 240pp. 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 1991 ‘Climate Book of the Year’
Ross,A. (1991) Strange Weather: Culture, Science and Technology in the Age of Limits. London/New York: Verso. 275pp. This essay continues my series of monthly posts in which I select one ‘climate’ book to highlight and review from one of...
‘Bring digital twins back to Earth’
In this Perspective essay published today in WIREs Climate Change, and led by philosopher of models, Andrea Saltelli, we reflect on the development of digital twins of the Earth, which we associate with a reductionist view of nature as...
My 1990 ‘Climate Book of the Year’
Rotmans,J. (1990) IMAGE: An Integrated Model to Assess the Greenhouse Effect. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic. 289pp. This essay continues my series of monthly posts in which I select one ‘climate’ book to highlight and review from one of the 44...
‘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 […]
Climatism and Its Discontents: Why Net-Zero Obsession is Unfair to the World’s Poor
The ideology of climatism has dangerous implications for societies, especially for countries such as India whose development trajectory and ambition requires them to pursue a plurality of goals. You can read here my op-ed for India’s OutlookBusiness, an abridged...
My 1989 ‘Climate Book of the Year’
McKibbin,B. (1989) The End of Nature. New York: Random House. 226pp. 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...
‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything’ … in Korean
Today, 24 June, the Korean edition of ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything‘ is published. I can’t say I read Korean, but if you do you might like to check out this web-site and blog — and let me know whether...
