by Andrew Simms | Mar 17, 2020 | Blog, Rapid Transition
Nothing like the current upheavals around the world in the wake of the novel coronavirus, COVID19, have been experienced in peacetime. But societies have mobilised like this during conflict and mass conflagrations. Are there lessons to be learned, and could it lead to...
by Andrew Simms | Mar 10, 2020 | Blog, Rapid Transition
Lindsay Mackie and Andrew Simms explore how crises reveal fundamental flaws in underlying political and economic models and call for a new approach It looks like it’s going to be a national emergency, or, in Whitehall terms, a very grave civil contingency. Novel...
by Andrew Simms | Jan 6, 2020 | Blog, Daily Climate Denial, Weather Bombs
Australia is a canary in the coal mine of global heating, Bill McGuire, Prof of Geophysical & Climate Hazards and New Weather co-director, unpacks the irony that one of the world’s least welcoming nations to migrants, could shortly find many of its citizens...
by Andrew Simms | Jan 2, 2020 | Blog, Rethinking Economics
Each year the Financial Times newspaper investigates the UK’s upcoming economic prospects with a survey of analysts. New Weather’s Andrew Simms took part. The survey’s predictions often prove highly accurate. Like last year, the uncertainty of Brexit still...
by Andrew Simms | Nov 19, 2019 | Blog, Daily Climate Denial, Weather Bombs
As reported in this BBC News article, New Weather Institute co-director, Prof Bill McGuire has resigned from the Geological Society over its relationships with fossil fuel companies, following 40 years of membership. In a short introduction and his open resignation...
