(1 November) My public lecture at the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Waterloo on Thursday 24 October 2013, ‘The public life of climate change; the first 25 years’, has been blogged about here by Erin Baxter of CIGI … “Whether climate can be managed by humans is the question that set the scene for […]
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What do citizens and scientists expect of each other?
(1 November 2013) Read my new blog post ‘What do citizens and scientists expect of each other?’ Over the last couple of weeks I have found myself in three very different settings in which challenging questions have been asked about the relationship between scientific knowledge and personal belief and social behaviour. Each time this has […]
The future of nature: documents of global change
(31 October) This new book from Yale University Press – ‘The future of nature: documents of global change’ – is newly published. It contains a commentary by me on John Tyndall’s original 1859 experiments into the greenhouse effect and also includes an abridged version of my 2011 Osiris article ‘Reducing the future to climate’, which […]
Climate knowledge and international politics
(13 October) ‘Climate knowledge and international politics – the future of the IPCC’. As the IPCC meets this week to consider its future assessment strategy, read my new essay posted at e-International Relations.
The public life of climate change: the first 25 years
(27 September) ‘The public life of climate change: the first 25 years’. A new essay marking the 25th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher’s speech on climate change to the Royal Society: 27 September 1988.
Podcast: A more pragmatic politics of climate change
(27 September) ‘Podcast: a more pragmatic politics of climate change is needed, not more weighty science’. Listen to my thoughts following the IPCC’s latest scientific assessment.
Knowledge, authority and the construction of climate change
(22 August 2013) I am an international collaborator on this project, Cultures of Prediction, led by Professor Matthias Heymann at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. It is funded by the Danish Research Council and examines the emergence of climate modeling as a culture of prediction in the formative period between ca. 1960 and 1985. Climate modeling has […]
An editorial on WIREs Climate Change
(19 August) ‘WIREs Climate Change after 4 years: an editorial’. I have written a new editorial reflecting on the first four years of the journal and also the changing academic publishing landscape around the topic of climate change.
Climate change and the art of memory
(19 August) I shall be joining novelist Maggie Gee, eco-critic Greg Garrard and philosopher Claire Colebrook to discuss ‘Climate change and the art of memory’ at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, 7pm on Wednesday 9 October.
What has changed since Climategate?
(9 August) ‘The 97.1% consensus’. While I was away on holiday, my criticism at Making Science Public of the Cook et al. study in Environmental Research Letters attracted a fair amount of comment on several climate blogs (for example see here). In partial response I have posted here an extract from one of my new […]
