The above Perspective article, for which I was the handling editor, was published on-line by WIREs Climate Change on 17 January 2022 following peer review. Wiley’s, the journal’s publisher, have today — 5th April 2023 — published an ‘Article Note’ to accompany this Perspective, referring to a formal complaint the publisher received about my handling […]
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How climate visions get constructed
In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews me about how climate visions get constructed. The conversation explores something about my career studying climate change and in particular discusses some of the methods, data, and scenarios underlying the work of the IPCC and how its visions of the future get constructed. […]
In Defence of the ‘Centre for Policy Research’, New Delhi
24 March 2023 I have lent my name to the following open letter, in which professors from universities in the USA, UK, Europe and Australia state why we are “shocked and dismayed” at the Government of India action against...
The Most Important Book of 2023
Those readers who followed my blog posts during the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021 will know I became increasingly frustrated and bewildered, then angry, and finally depressed, about the institutionalized responses to the COVID pandemic, which in my opinion, became increasingly authoritative, draconian and regressive. I warned about the performative power of epidemiological models […]
Climate, cartography, and the life and death of the ‘natural region’ in British geography
This research article, co-written with my post-doctoral colleague Dr Tom Simpson, is recently published in the Journal of Historial Geography. Using the work of Scottish geographer Andrew Herbertson, we explore how the idea of ‘climate’ was a mutable concept...
Nature’s editorial about the IPCC and Mike Hulme’s new book
This week’s issue of Nature (2 March 2023), includes an editorial which discusses the book I edited with my colleague Kari de Pryck and which was published open-access in December: ‘A Critical Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change‘ (CUP, 2022). Nature‘s editorial describes it as a book that “takes an in-depth look at […]
Meeting Vivienne Westwood
Vivienne Westwood died on the 29 December 2022. A larger than life character, I once had the opportunity to meet her – at her suggestion – to discuss her thoughts about climate change and a campaigning TV series, to...
‘Climate Change Isn’t Everything: Liberating Climate Politics From Alarmism’
My new book about the ideology of climatism will be published by Polity Press in late spring 2023. The manuscript has now been signed off and the book in production. A brief synopsis is provided below … “The changing...
Published today as open-access …
A Critical Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is published today, 8th December, by Cambridge University Press as open-access. The book is edited by myself and Kari De Pryck and is available fully open-access. Click here for...
In conversation … ‘Why we disagree about climate change’
As part of the 32nd University of Cambridge Alumni Festival held in September 2022, Professor Bhaskar Vira and I were in conversation about the nature of the questions that human-caused climate change is challenging us with. You can view...
