(17 April) ‘Why fossil fuel divestment is a misguided tactic‘. Read my latest comment at The Guardian.
Essays & Blog Posts
Does this climate narrative really change anything?
(24 September) Book Review: ‘Does this climate narrative really change anything?’ Read my review for New Scientist of Naomi Klein’s new book ‘This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate’.
Why we need to stop talking about ‘geo-engineering’
(27 August) Blog Post: Why we need to stop talking about ‘geo-engineering‘. Lumping all geo-engineering techniques under one label risks making sensible options guilty by association.
Making tracks to the Rachel Carson Center
(25 August 2014) Read here my blog post at the Rachel Carson Center, outlining my interest in weather and culture and my progression from studying climate change through statistics to studying it through environmental humanities.
Does the IPCC model need updating?
(10 August) BLOG post: ‘Climate change and the assessment of expert knowledge: does the IPCC model need updating?‘ This commentary, prepared with a number of colleagues, appeared a few days ago on Bridges, the on-line magazine of the Office of Science and Technology, Austria.
Why we should not engineer a global thermostat
(1 May 2014) ‘Why we should not engineer a global thermostat‘. Read my blog at the Climate Engineering Conference 2014 website, which summarises the argument of my recent book, ‘Can Science Fix Climate Change?’ This was reviewed by Tim Kruger in last week’s issue Nature.
Climate change and the art of memory
(6 February) Climate change and the art of memory: ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being Green‘. Read this blog by Sebastian Groes based on an event I participated in last October at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, part of the AHRC-funded Science as Culture Memory Theme Network.
Global warming is dead; long live global heating?
(4 February) ‘Global warming is dead; long live global heating?’ Together with Brigitte Nerlich and Warren Pearce, I explore the changing language of climate change, prompted by the hiatus in global temperature. This is posted as part of the Making Science Public programme at the University of Nottingham.
Science can’t settle what should be done about climate change
(4 February) I have this new post over at The Conversation: ‘Science can’t settle what should be done about climate change‘, reflecting on last week’s oral evidence to the inquiry of the House of Commons Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change into the latest IPCC report.
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 […]
