(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 […]
Essays & Blog Posts
Climate knowledge and international politics
(13 October) ‘Climate knowledge and international politics – the future of the IPCC’. As the IPCC meets this week to consider its future assessment strategy, read my new essay posted at e-International Relations.
‘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.
Should politics really be taken out of climate change?
(10 July) ‘Should the politics really be taken out of climate change?’ See my short comment over at the 3S Blog on a recent Guardian on-line commentary calling for Australian climate policy to be set by experts not politicians.
Bruno Latour, the Holberg Prize and weather talk
(12 June) I have a new blog post at the 3S Blog: ‘Bruno Latour, the Holberg Prize and weather talk’ in which I reflect on the value of talking about the weather in public conversations about climate change.
Metaphors: taking responsibility for our choices
(6 May) I have a new blog post at the UEA 3S Blog [now defunct: 19-Jan-2021]: ‘Metaphors: taking responsibility for our choices’ in which I reflect on the power and hazards of crafting metaphors in environmental science. A few weeks ago at the launch event of the York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) I heard Johann […]
The new ‘loss and damage’ agenda and weather event attribution
(28 February) “Can (and should) ‘loss and damage’ be attributed to climate change?” Read my new blog post over at The Fletcher Forum for World Affairs. Following Doha and the COP18, the ‘loss and damage’ agenda now has institutional force, and the coming months and years will see rounds of technical and political negotiation about […]
What climate is – or should be – normal?
(30 January) ‘What climate is – or should be – normal?’ … my new post over at The Merton Stone, the blog of the 3S Group here at UEA. Does it matter that we have a proliforation of baseline climates from which deviations are calculated?
Paying more attention to uncertainties
(16 January) ‘Paying more attention to uncertainties’. See my new post over at The Merton Stone, the blog of the 3S Group here at UEA. I ask the question: have climate researchers paid more attention to ‘uncertainties’ in their work since Climategate? The answer is ‘yes’.
Are there ‘solutions’ to global environmental change?
(27 June) “Are there ‘solutions’ to global environmental change?” – read my new blog post at The Merton Stone, the blog of the Science, Sustainability and Society (3S) Group.
