How advertisers got people shopping in two-tonne trucks

How advertisers got people shopping in two-tonne trucks

New study shows three quarters of ‘off road’ SUVs sold in towns and cities and calls on ad agencies to drop polluters We are far less in control of the things that we buy, such as cars, than we think. In a new study, Mindgames on wheels we show how marketing created...
Economic prospects for 2020: New Weather and the FT survey

Economic prospects for 2020: New Weather and the FT survey

Each year the Financial Times newspaper investigates the UK’s upcoming economic prospects with a survey of analysts. New Weather’s Andrew Simms took part. The survey’s predictions often prove highly accurate. Like last year, the uncertainty of Brexit still...
Why flying is heading for a climate tailspin

Why flying is heading for a climate tailspin

Bill McGuire explains why global heating is making flying even worse… for global heating Even if we often pretend the opposite, we all know how appallingly bad flying is for the environment. Be as green as you like the rest of the time, but just one return...
Shorts and sun-shades in February then drowning in March

Shorts and sun-shades in February then drowning in March

Weather and climate are not the same, but Bill McGuire is reeling at the numbers rolling-up from recent extreme weather events and how climate change is loading the dice. Here he writes about why… The UK weather at the end of February was was the first time that...