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My 1998 ‘Climate Book of the Year’

The book cover of "The Ice People" by Maggie Gee, noted as a groundbreaking 1998 climate book, features prominently against a striking purple background.

Gee,M. (1998) The Ice People. London: Richard Cohen Books. 319pp. 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 end […]

The Tyndall Centre at 25 Years: Bidding for the Contract

Logos for UEA Norwich, UMIST, and Southampton Oceanography Centre proudly celebrate 25 years of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research: integrated research for sustainable solutions.

Twenty-five years ago today – on Wednesday 22 March 2000 – I arrived at the Institute of Directors at 116 Pall Mall, London, at 10.30am in the morning prepared to deliver the most important presentation of my life. I was to defend our proposal for establishing a new national climate change research centre in front […]

‘Small-Step Funding Models Fit Better for Climate Research’

Logo of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) with a gradient background transitioning from blue to light yellow.

I have this item of Correspondence appear in Nature Climate Change today. I contrast the research funding model of the UK Government’s Advanced Research and Innovation Agency (ARIA) with the funding model that established, 25 years ago this summer, the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. I conclude my comparison thus: “Research into the sociology […]