TWO OPPOSING IDEAS
There is nothing remotely clever about acknowledging the severity of climate breakdown’s impact on the UK, while considering policies that will actually make this worse
Cool Earth
We need to rewild the climate; rewinding atmospheric carbon levels and global average temperatures to pre-industrial times. For what it's worth, check out my take on news, events and observations in the sphere of global heating and climate breakdown here.
Subscribe:.rss.atom.json.md.m3u.pls
Live Last read · last published · next check
Latest episodes
YELLOWSTONE ERUPTION: THIS IS HOW A SUPERVOLCANO EXPLOSION WILL UNFOLD
Fresh clues beneath one of Earth’s most powerful supervolcanoes reveal how it could explode – unleashing global devastation
EARTH IS HEATING FASTER THAN AT ANY TIME IN ITS HISTORY
To understand where climate change is heading, we have to look at the planet’s distant past and appreciate the disturbing uniqueness of our situation,
NO MORE NORTH SEA DRILLING
The climate doesn’t care about what pleases the fossil fuel industry or is perceived as politically palatable. It cares about the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere
SMALL STEPS TO NOWHERE
For the first time the UK government has announced that it might be a good idea if people started taking ‘small but important steps’ in preparation for potential national emergencies
WILDFIRES ARE RAGING - AND THE WORLD HAS JUNKED 45 CLIMATE PLEDGES. DISASTER LOOMS, AND LITTLE WONDER
Five years ago, I wrote an open letter asking climate scientists to speak out against fossil fuels. Now governments are in retreat, it is surely time to act
THE TERMINATOR TERMINATED
Is humanity really at risk of extinction? Will we be the first species to knowingly bring about our own demise?
WILL THE SUN SAVE US?
While France and Spain burn and a mammoth El Niño builds in the tropical Pacific, it beggars belief that some climate deniers insist upon telling us that our world is set to get colder
ALL IN THE DETAIL
Not everywhere on Planet Earth is heating at the same rate, so where are the winners and losers?
ON THE CUSP
A lot of fuss has been made of limiting the global average temperature rise to 1.5°C, but few seem to understand why. This isn’t just an arbitrary figure picked out of a hat.
THE FRONT LINE
The rate of sea-level rise has doubled in just the last 10 years. What might this mean for our coastal towns and cities?
THE FATE OF THE WORLD
A history and future of the climate crisis
DEADLY FUNGAL DUST STORMS ARE NOW SWEEPING THE UNITED STATES
And the problem is just getting worse
FOCUSED ON THE FUTURE
The unprecedented heat and humidity that that has gripped the UK and Europe this week has done wonders to focus minds on what future decades might bring
CARBON, EXTINCTIONS, AND THE FIRST MASS EXTERMINATION
Altogether, our world is thought to hold a staggering 1.85 billion, billion tonnes of carbon, nearly all of which is beneath our feet
AGE OF HUMANS
Humankind’s signature is now scrawled across every nook and cranny of the planet, and almost everywhere it has been destructive, some of it cataclysmically so
CARBON DRAWDOWN - CLIMATE SAVIOUR OR HUBRISTIC PIPE DREAM
Using so-called Negative Emissions Technologies to suck carbon dioxide from the air at a scale that will bring about meaningful reductions would be a prodigious task
HEATWAVES ARE BECOMING THE NORM: THIS IS WHAT BRITAIN WILL LOOK LIKE IN 2052
People sleep outside because their houses are too hot to inhabit, water is scarce and supermarkets are for the wealthy
IT'S NOT THE SUN - STUPID
Many climate deniers proclaim that natural variations in the sun’s activity are the primary cause of contemporary global heating. They couldn't be more wrong
EL NINO 2026
Game changer or damp squib?
SLIP SLIDING AWAY
Ice and permafrost – which together make up the glue that holds mountain faces in place - are melting and thawing fast, causing high mountain landscapes to become ever more dangerous.