I have just finished reading David Attenborough’s witness statement: ‘A life on our planet’. I was particularly struck by the metaphor he uses to describe us – our global civilisation in the 21st century – as being synonymous with the population of Pripyat, the town that was devastated by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The metaphor …
The second part of the sixth IPCC assessment report just came out! I know the fans have been lining up to get a sneak preview at the enthralling 3675 pages of pure adrenaline fuelled empirical scientific content. UN Secretary-General Antonio Gutierrez described the report as “Today’s IPCC report is an atlas of human suffering and a …
*** I wrote this in 2017 and is a repost from another blog old site. *** Data from the Met office, NASA and NOAA has made it official – 2016 was the hottest year ever recorded. Yet it seems that over the last few years climate change denial has only increased. The new President of the …