The key to understanding climate change
In my opinion, much of the confusion and public uncertainty over climate change is a lack of understanding of the difference between weather and climate.Weather...
Book Review: Blueprint for a Safer Planet by Nicholas Stern
May 20, 2009
Nicholas Stern's 2006 eponymous report has been credited with taking the climate change debate out of academic and green circles and into the 'real world'...
Never Google “Climate Change”…
May 12, 2009
I've been refreshing my climate change slides for a couple of forthcoming workshops - one with NHS directors and the other for staff from a...
Swine & Sustainability
May 5, 2009
OK, now it appears safe to do so, let's have a look at the probable origins of swine flu. We take a natural system -...
Another Al Gore Movie
Apr 24, 2009
Here's another Al Gore presentation on climate change from TED.com - updating on the science and proposing some solutions. It's over a year old, but...
Earth Hour switch off 8:30pm 28 March 2009
Feb 26, 2009
If you'd like to make a small symbolic gesture of your commitment to tackling climate change, just switch off your (non-safety related) lights for an...
Lord Smith on climate change and the CCC report
Dec 11, 2008
In this podcast from edie, Chris Smith, Environment Agency Chairman talks to the Environmental Industries Commission. Unlike the usual blandishments you get from the 'great...
Never work with children or animals…
Oct 17, 2008
Yesterday I was doing some pro bono work to persuade 120 twelve-year-olds of the joys of engineering and, in my case, that engineering and a...
Grey and Green
May 8, 2008
I gave a presentation on climate change to the Ponteland chapter of the University of the Third Age (U3A) yesterday. A very interesting and interested...
Bleak News from Bali
Dec 10, 2007
UK political orthodoxy has two main tenets when it comes to climate change: "yes, we can fix it, if only the Americans/Chinese/this month's scapegoat do...