Comment on climate
Comment on climate
Quick responses to issues in the media, comments on events and other timely remarks.
On the 12th January I took a slide down the road on black ice when my bicycle shot away from beneath me. A few days later and after being transferred to Salford Royal Hospital I underwent a five-hour operation, coming…
This is a quick response to a question about a ‘carbon budget for life’ (Rosalind Readhead – Twitter 11th Jan 2021; thread at: ) A Personal Annual Carbon Budget Working from the UK carbon budget in our recent paper (A Factor of Two…
Nov. 2020 Five years on from the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement, and the UK Government’s ten-point plan amounts to little more than a rhetorical flourish for which future generations will pay dearly. In the absence of a coordinated, quantitively…
… the time for action is not at COP25, but now and during the intervening months … Four weeks on and the allure of Christmas and New Year festivities fade into the grey light of a Manchester January – a…
Cutting the social cost of carbon to $1/ton reveals the charade that’s supported a quarter of a century of inaction on climate change. Kevin Anderson[1] Dec. 2018 This is piece written at the request of the New Scientist following the…
By Kevin Anderson[1] and Magdalena Kuchler[2] Dec. 2018 [1]Prof. Energy and Climate Change, CEMUS, Uppsala University and Deputy Director of the Tyndall Centre, University of Manchester [2]Senior Lecturer, Natural Resources and Sustainable Development, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University This…