(30 January 2010) You can follow my evolving views on the science and politics of climate change by reading these 16 short statements, all of which have appeared in the journal Nature during the period 1997-2010.
News
IPCC: Cherish, tweak or scrap?
(10 February 2010) Read my opinion commentary in Nature, along with the views of four others, about what needs to happen to the IPCC.
A changing climate for the IPCC
(3 February 2010) Read here on SciDev.net my thoughts about the mini-crisis now afflicting the IPCC.
The road from Copenhagen: the expert’s views
(29 January 2010) Read my thoughts on the future of climate policy in the light of Copenhagen, as interviewed for Nature Reports Climate Change.
Claims About Mountain Glaciers
(23 January 2010) Mountain glaciers have been very much in the news with the recent controversy about erroneous IPCC claims of disappearing Himalayan glaciers. I have a paper ‘in press’ with the journal Science as Culture about another controversy about disappearing mountain glaciers, this time those on Mt Kilimanjaro. You can read it here – Claiming and adjudicating […]
The end of a ‘unified framework’
(12 January) Read my comments on the outcome of COP15 here at Seed Magazine.com, a US-based e-magazine reflecting on science, culture, innovation and society. My argument is that we must use the 12 months until Mexico City to cut our losses and rethink a more pragmatic set of approaches for managing climate and its attendant risks.
Chosen by The Economist as one of the ‘books of the year’
(4 December) One of The Economist magazine’s select ‘Books of the year’: Why We Disagree About Climate Change: understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity. The citation says “How global warming has been transformed from a physical phenomenon that is measurable and observable by scientists into a social, cultural and political one, by a professor of climate […]
Book Projects
The results of the ADAM Project will be published through a mini-series of four books from Cambridge University Press. The first of these – the synthesis volume, Making Climate Change Work For Us – is now published (see below), and the three other books will appear from CUP early in 2010: Global Climate Governance Beyond 2012 (eds. Biermann et al.), […]
Op-eds on science and politics
(3 December) THE SCIENCE AND POLITICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE. Read my reflections on the relationship between the science and politics of climate change in this Wall Street Journal op-ed and a second take on the same matter in The Guardian newspaper, ‘Laboratories’ Outer Limits’.
Climate Change (AGW): Let’s take it seriously
(December) Read this review and interesting interpretation of Why We Disagree About Climate Change from Richard D North.
