(27 September) ‘Podcast: a more pragmatic politics of climate change is needed, not more weighty science’. Listen to my thoughts following the IPCC’s latest scientific assessment.
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Climate change and the art of memory
(19 August) I shall be joining novelist Maggie Gee, eco-critic Greg Garrard and philosopher Claire Colebrook to discuss ‘Climate change and the art of memory’ at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, 7pm on Wednesday 9 October.
What has changed since Climategate?
(9 August) ‘The 97.1% consensus’. While I was away on holiday, my criticism at Making Science Public of the Cook et al. study in Environmental Research Letters attracted a fair amount of comment on several climate blogs (for example see here). In partial response I have posted here an extract from one of my new […]
‘400ppm: symbolism, dread and panic’
(7 August) I have a short on-line commentary ‘400ppm: symbolism, dread and panic’ at Society and Space (Environment & Planning D), one of a number of essays commenting on the Mauna Loa CO2 concentration exceeding 400ppm for the first time.
Climate change and virtue: an apologetic
(13 May) ‘Climate change and virtue: an apologetic’. The transcript for my Annual Religious Studies Lecture at Queen’s University Belfast, 1 May 2013, can be found here.
‘Why we disagree ….’ on YouTube
(6 June) ‘Why we disagree about climate change’ I have a new YouTube video outlining the ideas behind the book and trailing my new book out in August: ‘Exploring climate change through science and in society’.
Climate change and virtue: an apologetic
(13 May) ‘Climate change and virtue: an apologetic’. The transcript for my Annual Relgious Studies Lecture at Queen’s University Belfast, 1 May 2013, can be found here.
‘A safe operating space for humanity’: do people’s beliefs need to change?
(24 April) You can view the video here of the talk I gave at the launch of the York Environmental Sustainability Institute, 8-9 April, University of York. The slides are here and I have posted here the transcript of the talk.
‘To know thy place’
(27 March) NEW review essay: ‘To know thy place: geography and the humanities’. I have recently published this review essay in Progress in Human Geography, vol.37(2), pp.306-310, reflecting on the following two books, both published in 2011: “Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds: Geography and the Humanities”, edited by Stephen Daniels et al. and “GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge […]
Does (climate) science need to be consensual to be authoritative?
(27 February) “Does (climate) science need to be consensual to be authoritative?” You can view my talk here which was given on Wednesday 6 February 2013 at the STEPS Centre Conference on ‘Credibility across cultures‘. A longer version of this is being prepared for a book, but I have posted here a summary of my argument. It […]
