New Weather co-director Prof Bill McGuire resigns from scientific body over fossil fuel funding – full letter

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...

Knock Three Times – see our new collection of modern folk tales

by Andrew Simms | Oct 28, 2019 | Blog, Creative Thinking

Buy it here: Knock Three Times – 28 modern folk tales for a troubled world edited by Andrew Simms and Bill McGuire for New Weather. Click here and listen at 35 mins 15 secs to BBC Radio 4’s coverage of Knock Three Times “All you can talk about is...

Five fails in UK climate emergency action

by Andrew Simms | Oct 22, 2019 | Blog, Rapid Transition

As the UK is revealed to be the biggest net importer of carbon dioxide emissions per person in the G7 group of wealthy nations, heterodox economist Katie Kedward spells out five reasons to question the UK government’s progress on tackling the...

Rising seas and Extinction Rebellion: policing the wrong problem

by Andrew Simms | Oct 13, 2019 | Blog, Clearing the Air, Weather Bombs

Bill McGuire, Prof. of Geophysical & Climate Hazards, says that policing Extinction Rebellion looks like displacement by state authorities unwilling to act on rising seas In the battle against global heating and climate breakdown there are, at present, two front...

Climate Breakdown? We need to talk about the Treasury

by Andrew Simms | Oct 10, 2019 | Blog, Rapid Transition, Rethinking Economics

Extinction Rebellion held a People’s Assembly in Parliament to identify new priorities for each government department, this is an adapted from Andrew Simms’ short speech on the challenge to the Treasury When he led the Treasury as Chancellor of the...