A new report says climate change is a public health crisis needing behaviour change similar to smoking, drink driving or HIV/AIDS. Efforts to change public behaviour to address climate change must learn from the great campaigns of previous decades on smoking, drink...
Lindsay Mackie writes about coming down from the mountains with ideas about how our economics and politics can become better rooted and able to give communities what they need The losses we have endured over the past ten years since the Banking Crash of 2008 are not...
The BBC belatedly admitted mistakes over its reporting of global warming after public pressure and official censure. but the reporting of climate change is still inadequate argue Prof Bill McGuire and Andrew Simms What did it take for the BBC to admit that its...
There is no shortage of evidence for humanity’s environmental crises. Data from a global catalogue of recent extreme weather events warns of a climate emergency. But is there also evidence for optimism? Paul Allen, project leader for the Zero Carbon Britain...
This week marks the 90th birthday of one of the pioneers of the new economics: James Robertson, one of the founders of the New Economics Foundation and a continuing inspiration to us at New Weather. It seemed like a good moment to reprise our 2016 interview with him...
Yes, it is hot. The heat has also added a layer of what I can only describe as degradation to our public services. But before I describe it, I don't want to be pigeon-holed as someone who believes that all services should be managed by ministers, as they were before -...
Our weather extremes are signs of a human population overshooting its planetary home, writes Prof Bill McGuire, what will it take to make us change course? How long can we go on prevaricating? How long can we hedge our bets when deciding if a particular natural...
In the middle of a heatwave and drought, it’s not just the leakage allowed by private water companies (as much as people actually use), but the money they drain from a vital piece of our national infrastructure that’s the problem, writes Miriam Stewart, from the...
So the NHS is 70 years old, and – perhaps it is because it is currently under threat from serious underfunding – the coverage has been self-congratulatory. There is a lot to be congratulatory about, of course: free at the point of use and the egalitarian ethos. It...
A record-breaking heatwave hints at a lethal new climate normal, writes Prof Bill McGuire, but you wouldn’t know as the obsession with Brexit drowns out real news Nostalgia is gripping the political agenda and not in a good way, with Brexit harking back to an imagined...