The Israeli-U.S. startup Stardust Solutions announced last week that it raised $60 million in venture capital in its latest funding round – the largest venture investment to date for a for-profit company developing solar geoengineering technology, particularly injection of reflective particles into the stratosphere. Advocates of solar geoengineering are dismayed. But why are they surprised? […]
Twenty-five years ago today, on Thursday 9 November 2000, over 250 guests assembled at the University of East Anglia (UEA) to mark the official ‘opening’ of the newly-funded Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. The Centre was opened by the UK’s Environment Minister, Labour MP Michael Meacher (1939-2015), and took place in the middle of […]
Bill Gates’ recent open letter to those gathering at Belem for COP30 in mid-November has caused a stir. Here are his three truths: I fully agree. It’s almost as if he has been reading my 2023 book ‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything: Liberating Climate Politics from Alarmism‘, where I make very similar points; or perhaps he […]
Discussing a tendency in contemporary politics to reduce issues to questions of scientific measures of climate change, Mike Hulme argues for more diverse understandings of climate and change and its impacts on society. I discussed these ideas in my lecture at the London School of Economics, ‘Epistemic Pluralism and Climate Change’ on 10 March 2025, […]
Despite a heated debate at COP28 over whether the world should be phasing-out fossil fuels altogether, the governmental delegates in the end agreeing rather to “transition away from fossil fuels”, Net Zero remains the collectively agreed target. But as I argue in this post for the Institute of Arts and Ideas, Net Zero is both […]
