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Climatism and the Reification of Global Temperature
Over the last 40 years global-mean surface air temperature – ‘global temperature’ for short – has gained an extraordinary role in the science, politics and public discourse of climate change. What was once a number crudely calculated through averaging...
Against climate emergency
The recent Special Report from the IPCC on Global Warming of 1.5C (IPCC SR15) has (again) heightened the climate change rhetoric and generated another splurge of dramatic headlines: ‘We have 12 more years to limit climate change catastrophe’, ‘World...
Geoengineering at ‘the edge of the world’
This new paper, co-authored with Kate Gannon from LSE and based on her PhD completed under my supervision, is now on-line in the journal GEO: Geography and Environment. Drawing upon ethnography amongst the Haida peoples of British Columbia, it...
Cultures of Climate – Sydney, 23 April
As part of the Australian Museum’s HumanNature series of public talks, I shall be speaking on Monday 23 April, at 6pm in the Museum, on the topic ‘Cultures of Climate’. In this talk, based on my book Weathered: Cultures of Climate, I examine how different cultures give shape and meaning to the idea of climate. […]
Weather-Worlds in the Anthropocene and the End of Climate
This new essay has been written as a contribution to a collaborative double issue of the journal Weber with the Rachel Carson Center, on the theme ‘Transformations of the Anthropocene’. It is scheduled to appear in autumn 2018 (Issue...
Calculating the Incalculable: Is SAI the Lesser of Two Evils?
In a forthcoming article in Ethics and International Affairs, Christopher J. Preston uses the doctrine of double effect to claim that hypothetical climate engineers might very well be less culpable for climate harms than those who continue to emit...
One Man Does Not Control the Climate
It is important not to over-react to the news that Donald Trump wishes to withdraw the USA from the Paris Agreement and seek to renegotiate a ‘fairer deal’ for America. The wailing and grieving around the media that has accompanied yesterday’s announcement is exactly the sort of reaction that Trump is seeking to provoke. It […]
Energy Humanities Podcast
Listen to me talking about ‘the many meanings of climate’ (starts at 10:00 minutes), recorded with Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer for their Cultures of Energy blog, part of the Centre for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human...
New appointment as Head of Department
(6 March) Appointment as Head of the Department of Geography. I will be taking up this new role at King’s College London from the beginning of April. This coincides with a major new recruitment cycle of academic positions in...