Some Dutch citizens are suing their leaders for not taking climate change seriously (you can read about it here). While I wish them luck, a little historical context may be of interest. The Dutch were among the first (behind the Germans) to get their heads around climate change. There were high hopes and bold pronouncements. ... Continue Reading →
A 42-slide extravaganza exposing (some) of the mechanics of climate denial in the US. http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/solutions/fight-misinformation/global-warming-facts-and-fossil-fuel-industry-disinformation-tactics.html#.VR_xZCvF_9Y The trouble in Manchester is not outright "denial" but the obsession with inward investment and the horrific culture of the Labour Party. So it goes...
Which is, in so many ways, a very distant prospect... http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/comment/opinion/how-to-avoid-interview-pitfalls/2017760.article
Here we go. Here we go with the summit-hopping and the protestations that we have to Build a Mass Movement and the only/best/sensible (delete as appropriate) way to do that is to have a big march/ruck at (Prague/Genoa/Copenhagen and… Paris. (Yeah, well – screw Paris. No, seriously, screw Paris.) Here we go with the sages... Continue Reading →
Last night I got to do a ten minute "what is my research about" spiel at "PhD in the Pub." It was followed by a slightly-less-than-20-minute q and a session (because I 'donated' some time from that to having folks confer before we began asking questions). My spiel covered - "meet someone you don't know"... Continue Reading →
The second verse goes like this; Frankie looks like a nice young cop but he's got an old cop's face He believed in truth and justice till they took him off the case Now he's walkin' the beat on the wrong side of town, bustin' drunks and shakin' them down Don't ask him who he's... Continue Reading →
Marc Hudson tries to put the “global human-caused carbon emissions not going up” news into context. I don’t know if there are people out there who, on hearing from the International Energy Agency that for the first time outside of a recession, the amount of carbon dioxide we’ve tipped into the atmosphere (from burning fossil... Continue Reading →
Who knows what about how the world works (on a geophysical level?) How do they find it out and what should “we” do with that knowledge? These were some of the questions that Professor Noel Castree grappled with (successfully!) yesterday afternoon at a seminar entitled “Changing while standing still? Global change scientists and the politics... Continue Reading →
What a brilliant afternoon/evening!! Cheap wine (monopolised), super-smart people who forgave (?) my failure to have read the Sleeping Beauty version and the Bettelheim exegesis. All lubricated with people's digressions on consent and cups of tea, Jack Halberstam and much more. This fun was at the second “Reading Folk” group meeting. Will I be at... Continue Reading →
Marc Hudson on the current state of play in the United Kingdom. From the march last Saturday, to a historical digression, to Industry and Government to Paris. There was a climate march in London on the weekend, that the organisers said they were hoping would be the biggest ever in the UK. (For the record,... Continue Reading →
