My 1989 ‘Climate Book of the Year’

The cover of the book "The End of Nature" by Bill McKibben, featuring a black background with the title and author's name in large white text, heralds it as the 1989 Climate Book of the Year.

McKibbin,B. (1989) The End of Nature. New York: Random House. 226pp. This essay continues my series of monthly posts in which I select one ‘climate’ book to highlight and review from one of the 44 years of my professional career in climate research (starting with 1984, my first year of academic employment).  The series will […]

‘The dangerous obsession with Net-Zero’

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 […]