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 […]
Publications – Recent
‘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 a machine. The project of digital twins deviates from contemporary scientific paradigms in the treatment of […]
Review: “Inside the World of Climate Change Sceptics”
Read here my review, to appear in Public Understanding of Science, of Kristin Haltinner and Dilshani Sarathchandra’s new book. As I conclude my review … “[T]he art of politics is not to get everyone to agree with you, but...
‘Three institutional pathways to envision the future of the IPCC’
Our new Commentary about the future of the IPCC has been published in Nature Climate Change. The author team is almost identical to that which contributed to the CUP open-access book ‘A Critical Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on...
Climate, cartography, and the life and death of the ‘natural region’ in British geography
This research article, co-written with my post-doctoral colleague Dr Tom Simpson, is recently published in the Journal of Historial Geography. Using the work of Scottish geographer Andrew Herbertson, we explore how the idea of ‘climate’ was a mutable concept...
‘Classics in human geography’: The science and politics of climate change
In 2001, David Demeritt published an article in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers titled, ‘The construction of global warming and the politics of science‘. It has been cited nearly 1000 times (Google Scholar). Now, more than two decades later, I and Rebecca Lave offer short retrospectives on the significance of Demeritt’s article […]
Reflections on the Afterlives of a PhD Thesis
This article has been just been published open-access in the RGS-IBG journal Area. Abstract Most readers of this essay will likely have written a PhD thesis, will be in the throes of writing one or perhaps will be aspiring...
Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis
I have two chapters in the recently published book with OpenBook Publishers in Cambridge, ‘Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis: Social Science Perspectives‘. This is a collection of 28 essays written by social scientists, and edited by Steffen Böhm, Exeter...
Balancing a budget or running a deficit? The offset regime of carbon removal and solar geoengineering under a carbon budget
In this new article, published today in the journal Climatic Change, my colleagues Shin Asayama and Nils Markusson and I examine a paradox of adopting a carbon budget as a policy tool. The very idea of a finite carbon...
Knowing like a global expert organisation
Synthesising nearly 10 years of primary research, including two PhD theses (Maud Borie and Martin Mahony) and a MSc thesis (Noam Obermeister), our systemic comparison of the ‘knowledge ways’ of the IPCC and IPBES is today published in the...
