August 21, 2014
Different Visions Of The Future
I’ve just finished reading a little tract by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway called “The Collapse of Western Civilisation: a View from the Future”. Not a very cheery title! And a…
May 8, 2014
Systems Thinking in Princeton and Beyond
In the north-west corner of Greenland, there’s a community of a few hundred Inuit people in a place called Qaanaaq. They don’t spend a lot of time talking about the theory of…
April 28, 2014
Offsetting Breakthroughs
Offsetting remains so controversial – but I spent quite some time last week wondering why. And that’s because it was a great week for ‘offsetting done well’. First up was the…
April 24, 2014
Reflections on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – Part 2 – IPCC Guidance: What Should We Be Doing Now?
The Report from Working Groups I (on the science of climate change) and II (on the impacts of climate change on human society) were – inevitably – deeply depressing. The science…
April 23, 2014
Reflections on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – Part 1: Let’s hear it for the IPPC!
I spent some time over Easter digging down into the latest reports released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – as part of its 5th Assessment Report. And I found…