UKRAINE ENERGY SOLIDARITY PLAN: How we can stop funding Putin’s war machine
The brutality of Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine has shocked the world. The Russian dictator is now formally accused of war crimes by the United States, and sanctions have been […]
Could humans survive a full-scale nuclear war? What the science says
The world is therefore arguably now closer to nuclear conflict than at any time since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. So what would a full-scale nuclear exchange look like in […]
Clock is ticking in race to slow carbon dioxide emissions, scientists warn
If any single illustration best highlights our climate predicament, it is probably the Keeling Curve. Now scientists are warning that time is running out to reverse its steep upward trend. […]
COP26: Crunch time for the climate
It’s the last chance for the climate. Of course, this is said before every annual COP, but for COP26, which starts this weekend in Glasgow, it really is the case. […]
COP26 climate change summit: Here’s what each degree of global warming would mean for the planet
It has become something of a cliché, in advance of each annual climate summit, to say that it represents the “last chance to save the climate” or somesuch. For COP26 […]
Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the peer-reviewed scientific literature
The scientific consensus that humans are altering the climate has reached 99.9%, according to a paper of which I was lead author, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. Here’s […]
Forget net zero – let’s have a ‘fossil freedom day’
So what might be a COP26 climate emergency target that we actually could meet? My suggestion is extremely simple: we set a date for the worldwide exit from fossil fuels, […]
Saved by the pandemic?
By an extremely fortunate coincidence, the world urgently needs to invest trillions of dollars in decarbonization just when the global economy equally urgently needs a huge stimulus to get people […]
New book – ‘Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency’
It’s here! After three years of hard labour, the new Six Degrees is finally launched. Thanks to HarperCollins for publishing on both sides of the Atlantic! For those asking – […]
‘The single most important goal of the candidates’ climate plan’ – CNN.com
The most urgent climate challenge of the next two years is to get Donald Trump out of the White House. Unless that happens, there is no way to restore sanity to US […]