(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.
News
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 […]
‘400ppm: symbolism, dread and panic’
(7 August) I have a short on-line commentary ‘400ppm: symbolism, dread and panic’ at Society and Space (Environment & Planning D), one of a number of essays commenting on the Mauna Loa CO2 concentration exceeding 400ppm for the first time.
Should politics really be taken out of climate change?
(10 July) ‘Should the politics really be taken out of climate change?’ See my short comment over at the 3S Blog on a recent Guardian on-line commentary calling for Australian climate policy to be set by experts not politicians.
Bruno Latour, the Holberg Prize and weather talk
(12 June) I have a new blog post at the 3S Blog: ‘Bruno Latour, the Holberg Prize and weather talk’ in which I reflect on the value of talking about the weather in public conversations about climate change.
‘Why we disagree ….’ on YouTube
(6 June) ‘Why we disagree about climate change’ I have a new YouTube video outlining the ideas behind the book and trailing my new book out in August: ‘Exploring climate change through science and in society’.
Climate change and virtue: an apologetic
(13 May) ‘Climate change and virtue: an apologetic’. The transcript for my Annual Relgious Studies Lecture at Queen’s University Belfast, 1 May 2013, can be found here.
Metaphors: taking responsibility for our choices
(6 May) I have a new blog post at the UEA 3S Blog [now defunct: 19-Jan-2021]: ‘Metaphors: taking responsibility for our choices’ in which I reflect on the power and hazards of crafting metaphors in environmental science. A few weeks ago at the launch event of the York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) I heard Johann […]
‘A safe operating space for humanity’: do people’s beliefs need to change?
(24 April) You can view the video here of the talk I gave at the launch of the York Environmental Sustainability Institute, 8-9 April, University of York. The slides are here and I have posted here the transcript of the talk.
‘To know thy place’
(27 March) NEW review essay: ‘To know thy place: geography and the humanities’. I have recently published this review essay in Progress in Human Geography, vol.37(2), pp.306-310, reflecting on the following two books, both published in 2011: “Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds: Geography and the Humanities”, edited by Stephen Daniels et al. and “GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge […]
