(6 October 2012) NEW Publication: Mahony,M. and Hulme,M. (2012) ‘The colour of risk: an exploration of the IPCC’s “burning embers” diagram’ Spontaneous Generation: a Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science 6(1), 75-89. Written with one of my PhD students, this paper examines the problems of representing visually the abstract risks associated with climate change.