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The Paris Agreement is a fitting testament to how years of diligent and meticulous science has ultimately weathered relentless and well-funded attempts to undermine its legitimacy. Building on this science base and under the inspiring auspices of the French people, the…

These are my responses to questions raised by Clare Speak in relation to her piece Warm Words Cold Reality (Big Issue No.1109. 30 Nov – 6 Dec 2015) Q1. – Is there anything about COP21 that makes you think it…

This is a quick response to Amber Rudd’s (Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change) speech “on a new direction for UK energy policy” – 18th November 2015. ******* Behind its confident bluff and eloquent rhetoric the UK Government’s new…

Published in Nature Climate Change. 2nd Oct. 2014 In preparation for an article a broadsheet journalist was writing, I was asked to respond to a series of questions related to Victor and Kennel’s proposition. Below is a tidied up version…

Response to Costing the Earth’s programme: A decade of Fracking BBC Radio 4; 1st Oct 2014; 21.00hrs. This is a copy of an email sent to the BBC following Wednesday’s airing of the programme Presenter Tom Heap noted during the introduction…

This is a brief response to Zachary Karabell’s piece for Slate.com entitled “Naomi Klein Is Wrong: Multinational corporations are doing more than governments to halt climate change” (Sept. 30. 2014) Zachary Karabell’s analysis muddles energy efficiency with absolute reductions in emissions. We…