The Brighton Belle was famous for its kippers. Laurence Olivier would take a leisurely breakfast back to his home in Ashurst in Sussex on the train after a West End triumph, reading the theatre reviews. The train began life in June 1934 and most of the brown and cream...
Lindsay Mackie writes about how a formerly poor, marginal corner of Austria made the transition to be a thriving green economy The Vorarlberg region of Austria didn’t start off with many of the advantages which have made other places rich in the modern world. No...
Bill McGuire writes that the IPCC was wrong to water down its toughest message yet on preventing climate breakdown Seeing climate change at the very top of the news agenda after publication of the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C warming was immensely...
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...