Article on climate science, carbon budgets and fear of speaking out

Dec. 2013.  Piece for the British Science Association. People & Science

An invited article summarising my concerns over the emergent conspiracy of silence amongst policy-makers, business leaders and many scientists as to the political and economic repercussions of science-based carbon-budgets for staying  below a 2°C rise in temperature.

** The fuller pre-editted version is available at: An emergent conspiracy: is the clamour for ‘policy-based evidence’ silencing science?