Despite the deluge of disasters linked to climate change across the world, climate denial by powerful individuals and the media that spreads their opinions has done enormous damage in slowing the changes we might have made to a sustainable future.
Lindsay Mackie introduces New Weather’s new pamphlet, Unprepared, co-authored with David Boyle and Andrew Simms, which argues that an age of climate disasters and system vulnerability needs a dynamic, new, locally run approach to preparedness and response If there...
In my just published eco-thriller, Skyseed, the untimely eruption of an obscure volcano in Bolivia dooms an illicit programme to engineer the climate to failure – and worse. The events that follow are pure fiction and hopefully will stay that way. Nonetheless,...
Australia is a canary in the coal mine of global heating, Bill McGuire, Prof of Geophysical & Climate Hazards and New Weather co-director, unpacks the irony that one of the world's least welcoming nations to migrants, could shortly find many of its citizens...
As reported in this BBC News article, New Weather Institute co-director, Prof Bill McGuire has resigned from the Geological Society over its relationships with fossil fuel companies, following 40 years of membership. In a short introduction and his open resignation...
Instead of the usual wrangling over policy, as it is a Friday and in honour of the global schools' climate strike happening today and the Fridays for Future movement, here is a song about climate breakdown written especially for us by our long-time collaborator,...
Key decisions are being taken now about whether or not the UK locks-in continuing dependence on fossil fuels. The fracas over fracking led some scientists with relationships to the oil and gas industry in a letter to The Times newspaper to support claims for a...
The BBC belatedly admitted mistakes over its reporting of global warming after public pressure and official censure. but the reporting of climate change is still inadequate argue Prof Bill McGuire and Andrew Simms What did it take for the BBC to admit that its...
One of the peculiar implications of our obsession with oil and fossil fuels is the strange way the UK has decided to pay for the decommissioning of the vast swathes of concrete and steel that now litters the North Sea. READ THE NEW REPORT HERE: Rigged: how the UK oil...
FOLLOW: @EverydayDenial You know things are bad when it takes Donald Trump pulling the US out of the Paris agreement for climate change to be discussed during the UK election. His climate denial is of the extreme and obvious variety: pages were removed from the...