(16 April) Imagining Change: Coastal Conversations is a new 17 minute film which features three projects from the AHRC Lanscape and Environment Programme for which I was an advisor. The film showcases different kinds of creative engagements between arts and humanities scholars and coastal landscapes and is suggestive of how environmental sciences and humanities can together understand the cultural dimensions […]
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Mike Mann and the ‘unwinnable war’
(31 March) NEW. My review of Mike Mann’s book ‘The Hockey-Stick and the Climate Wars’ is now published at Nature Climate Change.
Transparency and the limits of ‘see-through knowledge’
(17 December) “Transparency and the limits of ‘see-through’ knowledge” – my unpublished essay on the drive for limitless scientific knowledge and for total transparancy in social relations and what we may lose along the way.
BEST, peer review and public knowledge
The most interesting thing about the public release yesterday of the first results from Berkeley’s Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project is their timing. It is no surprise to me – nor to most people who have ever ‘got their hands dirty’ working with climate data – that the BEST curve closely follows the three other […]
November speaking dates
(16 October) I shall be speaking on Why We Disagree About Climate Change at two new venues: on Wednesday morning 2 November in Amsterdam at the 6th Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gas Symposium and on the evening of Tuesday 15 November at Trinity College, Dublin, to the Dublin University Geographical Society.
Symposium at Wageningen
(29 September) ‘Climate change: knowledge, risk and governance’ – I shall be speaking at this symposium at Wageningen School of Social Sciences, Wageningen University on Tuesday 1 November (0900-1600hrs), along with Prof Marjolein van Asselt from Maastricht University.
Talk at Off the Shelf Festival in Sheffield.
(5 September) I shall be speaking on Why We Disagree About Climate Change on Wednesday 5 October, 7.30pm, at Sheffield’s Off the Shelf Reading and Writing Festival. Venue: The Auditorium, University of Sheffield.
How to report a scientific consensus – impartially
(9 August) How to report a scientific consensus – impartially. Read my comments on last month’s report into the accuracy and impartiality of the BBC’s coverage of science.
Science-policy interface: beyond assessments
(8 August) The participants of the Leipzig workshop on the role of nested networks in the design of the new Intergovernmenal Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) have correspondence in the journal Science this week. We suggest the IPCC is not a suitable model for IPBES to follow.
Framing climate change
(5 July) ‘You’ve been framed: six new ways to understand climate change’. I join in The Conversation down-under about climate change, public engagement and policy development. Translations into French and Chinese are available.
