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The public life of climate change: the first 25 years

Posted in Audio & Video, News
27/09/2013

(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.

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Books

  • (2019) Contemporary Climate Change Debates: A Student Primer
  • (2016) Weathered: Cultures of Climate
  • (2015) Streitfall Klimawandel: warum es für die grö?te Herausforderung keine enfachen Lösungen gibt
  • (2014) Can Science Fix Climate Change? A Case Against Climate Engineering
  • (2013) Exploring Climate Change Through Science and In Society
  • (2010) Making Climate Change Work For Us
  • (2009) Why We Disagree About Climate Change

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