May 30, 2019
The Climate Emergency Continuum: from Bad to Cataclysmic
I’m pretty attuned to being on the receiving end of regular apocalypse-fixes. But even for me, Monday last week (20/5) was a tough one, with a new research report indicating that…
May 2, 2019
A Great Big Shout-Out to Extinction Rebellion!
What a fortnight! To have the utterly remarkable Greta Thunberg here in the UK for a couple of days was so inspiring. Her ‘truth to power’ take-down of UK parliamentarians,…
March 22, 2019
Antarctica’s Front Line on Climate Change Research
At the end of last year, I was fortunate enough to have a trip down to Antarctica, to look at some of the climate-related research work being done by Antarctica New Zealand, and…
November 22, 2018
Sustainable Palm Oil: If you Want to End Deforestation, Stick to the Facts!
I hate to have to say this, but James Corden and Bill Bailey have allowed themselves to be duped by an unholy combination of NGOs and naïve retailers. I’m referring, of course, to…
October 28, 2018
From 2 degrees C to 1.5 degrees C: This Changes Everything
If you’re not shit-scared now, about the likely impacts of accelerating climate change, you’re not awake. Or you’re dead to the future of humankind. True, I have been saying that…
March 20, 2018
Addressing Carbon Risks – Here and in New Zealand!
Just back from another trip to New Zealand – a different country from when I was last there a year ago, transformed as it is by a change of Government! To everyone’s surprise, the…
December 9, 2016
Getting to Grips with Climate Denialism
I really want to get to grips with this whole story about ‘climate denialism’ – a catch-all description that can be applied both to individual ‘denialists’ and the much broader,…
December 4, 2016
Climate Fight Night: Donald Trump -v- Peter Wadhams
This would, of course, be an odd and rather unevenly matched fight, Donald Trump being the President Elect of the United States of America, and Peter Wadhams being a very eminent…
April 22, 2016
Obama right on climate change and right on Europe
This Friday will mark a memorable moment in the history of climate diplomacy. It’s when the world comes together in New York to sign up to the climate agreement agreed in Paris at…
March 16, 2016
Climate Let-down Down Under
Even for a sympathetic observer from the UK, the politics of climate change in Australia is, to say the least, vexatious. But it’s now entering a more critical phase than ever…