Pink flowers flourish in a field near a building, exemplifying the Anthropocene.

Climate in the Anthropocene

The idea of climate only makes sense when there is a degree of stability in some set of conditions, whether these be atmospheric, economic, political or moral. When everything is changing and no stable condition is possible — the...

What do citizens and scientists expect of each other?

(1 November 2013)  Read my new blog post ‘What do citizens and scientists expect of each other?’  Over the last couple of weeks I have found myself in three very different settings in which challenging questions have been asked about the relationship between scientific knowledge and personal belief and social behaviour.  Each time this has […]