Owing to my planned retirement in 2027, I am no longer accepting approaches from new PhD students. Current PhD students: Friederike Hartz (awarded October 2025: funded by AHRC and Pembroke College): Taking responsibility for climate knowledge in a warming world. Exploring responsibility assembled in and around the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Madeleine Ary Hahne […]
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Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis
I have two chapters in the recently published book with OpenBook Publishers in Cambridge, ‘Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis: Social Science Perspectives‘. This is a collection of 28 essays written by social scientists, and edited by Steffen Böhm, Exeter...
Reading Climate Change Backwards: Five Varieties
Climate change is everywhere. In everyday speech, protest, advocacy, science, the arts, business and diplomacy. And there are of course some physical correlates to this discursive reality of climate change, namely changes occurring in the physical dynamics of the...
Advice to Christian Geography Professors
Earlier this year, I was invited by the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Christian Scholar’s Review, Professor Perry Glanzer, to contribute to a series of essays entitled, “Advice to Christian [fill in the academic discipline].” Glanzer’s inspiration for the series...
COVID-19, Climate Change and Emergency Politics
What can the COVID-19 pandemic teach us about handling the climate crisis? Listen to this new podcast with Ingrid Rieser and her ‘Forest of Thought’ podcast. We’ve seen that governments have not hesitated to take bold action when faced...
Universities Should Help Break the Wall Between Facts and Values
Managing climate change and pandemics alike requires ‘values-first’ approaches to public policy development, not ‘science-first’ rhetoric. Read this new essay in the Times Higher Education. If you cannot access the pay-wall, the article is reproduced in full below. In...
Scotland, Awake! An Autocracy Awaits You
As I have repeatedly warned on this blog – ‘Mobilising for War’, ‘Sleepwalking into Totalitarianism’ – that it is much easier to declare an emergency than it is to end one, much easier for a state to appropriate powers...
The IPCC’s Mistaken “Science-First” Approach to Climate Change
The first of four separate reports comprising the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) was released today. This is the report of Working Group 1 (WG1), ‘The Physical Science Basis of Climate Change’. It makes for dramatic headlines and grabs...
Balancing a budget or running a deficit? The offset regime of carbon removal and solar geoengineering under a carbon budget
In this new article, published today in the journal Climatic Change, my colleagues Shin Asayama and Nils Markusson and I examine a paradox of adopting a carbon budget as a policy tool. The very idea of a finite carbon...
‘Climate Change’: A Synopsis
My new book on climate change, in the Key Ideas in Geography series from Routledge, is published on 27 July 2021. You can pre-order paperback or Kindle editions now with a 20% discount. Here is a synopsis of the...
