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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
