In this short item of ‘correspondence’ published in Nature last week, I argue that Stiglitz’s recently proposed International Panel on Inequality, modelled on the IPCC, is unlikely to be effective. It is one more case of ‘IPCC envy’, the reasons for which I have previously explored. I find it remarkable how so many commentators continue […]
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 […]
