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A collection of 17 posts

Overshoot should mark the end of the road for supposed 'policy relevance'

Overshoot should mark the end of the road for supposed 'policy relevance'

But UNEP's Limiting Overshoot report keeps plodding along the same timid route

A photograph of golfers playing while a wildfire rages behind them.

Climate change must not disrupt business as usual

Don't believe the hype - we are still firmly on course towards climate catastrophe

A photo of cracks in a concrete floor

From tipping points to fracture points

We are entering an age of climate overshoot. The world will become increasingly turbulent and dangerous. Cracks will form across social systems. Our job is to prevent them from becoming fractures.

When being right is part of the problem

When being right is part of the problem

Climate scientists can feel condemned to having their warnings ignored

Don’t fly me to the moon

Don’t fly me to the moon

Why NASA’s record breaking lunar mission left me strangely unmoved

Yes we can no we didn’t

Yes we can no we didn’t

Those who cannot learn from past failures are condemned to repeat them (apologies to Santayana)

Here comes the flood

Here comes the flood

Arguing for climate change adaptation doesn't make you a doomer

Reading The Deluge While America Unravels

Reading The Deluge While America Unravels

Fiction risks becoming fact in a nation that continues the lurch towards fascism.

The world lost the climate gamble: now what?

The world lost the climate gamble: now what?

Warming is surging past 1.5°C along with the realisation that the Paris Agreement has failed

About as much use as a chocolate fireguard

About as much use as a chocolate fireguard

What is the point of climate negations if they cannot even mention fossil fuels?

Living beyond limits

Living beyond limits

Decades of climate policy failure means we must find ways to live in a more dangerous world

Derailment warning as world faces threats to its ability to act on climate change

Derailment warning as world faces threats to its ability to act on climate change

We may have seriously underestimated the risks of climate change. This includes derailment risks. This does not mean we are doomed, and it certainly does not mean there is no point in trying to turn off the fossil fuel spigot. In fact, the warmer it gets, the more important our actions become.

Climate tipping points should not be used to justify geoengineering

Climate tipping points should not be used to justify geoengineering

We are at a fork in the road. Crossing the first global tipping point should not be an excuse to lock in geoengineering, with its empty promises and spiralling risks.

Fossil fuels are ending

Fossil fuels are ending

They would end faster if we stopped being complete suckers