(10 August) BLOG post: ‘Climate change and the assessment of expert knowledge: does the IPCC model need updating?‘ This commentary, prepared with a number of colleagues, appeared a few days ago on Bridges, the on-line magazine of the Office of Science and Technology, Austria.
‘Exploring Climate Change Through Science and in Society’
‘Streitfall Klimawandel’ … why we disagree about climate change
(15 July 2014) Recorded extracts from my evening event at Stratum Lounge in Berlin last month, discussing my book Streitfall Klimawandel, can be found here.
‘Climate change and virtue: an apologetic’
(30 June 2014) NEW Paper: “Climate change and virtue: an apologetic” as part of the special issue on The Challenges of the Humanities of the open-access journal Humanities.
Attributing weather extremes to ‘climate change’
(11 June) NEW Paper: “Attributing weather extremes to ‘climate change’: A review” has been published on-line at Progress in Physical Geography. If you don’t have access to the journal then the original submitted version is found here.
Governance of global expertise
(28 May) NEW Paper : ‘Towards a reflexive turn in the governance of global expertise’, published in the journal GAiA and co-authored with Silke Beck and 14 others. The role and design of global expert organizations such as the IPCC or IPBES needs rethinking. Acknowledging that a one-size-fits-all model does not exist, we suggest a […]
Why we should not engineer a global thermostat
(1 May 2014) ‘Why we should not engineer a global thermostat‘. Read my blog at the Climate Engineering Conference 2014 website, which summarises the argument of my recent book, ‘Can Science Fix Climate Change?’ This was reviewed by Tim Kruger in last week’s issue Nature.
Climate and Cultures
Affiliations and Influences
This page summarises my professional and personal networks, roles and affiliations, revealing some of the responsibilities and influences that shape my thinking. Journals Since September 2007 I have been the founding Editor-in-Chief of Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs) Climate Change, whose first issue was published in January 2010. From 2003 to 2009 I co-edited with Neil Adger and Kate […]
Climate change: one, or many?
(8 April) “Climate Change: One, or Many?” On Tuesday 8 April I gave a talk in the opening Presidential Session of the Association of American Geographers Conference in Tampa, Florida. The slides from the talk are available here.


