Prof Bill McGuire writes: Grenfell Tower exposed one regulatory failure, but the government is ignoring other official advice to strengthen building regulations to protect homes, schools, hospitals & care homes from the heat of climate change, it's another...
As some call for colonisation of other worlds, and the government invests in space industries but fails the green economy, New Weather debates the dreams humanity has for its' future on the BBC and explores the issue in more detail...
See the SmogDay website for the real human stories behind the statistics on pollution. In December 2015, pollution causing smogs in Delhi gave it the worst air quality of any city in the world. It was exactly 63 years since the ‘Great Smog’ of London, estimated...
FOLLOW: @EverydayDenial You know things are bad when it takes Donald Trump pulling the US out of the Paris agreement for climate change to be discussed during the UK election. His climate denial is of the extreme and obvious variety: pages were removed from the...
For the moment let's leave the tactical discussion, the grim DUP, the Tory panic and the musings about Theresa May's lack of normal antennae to one side and concentrate on what might be the early, cheering conclusions of this unbelievable General Election. The first...
What is wrong with the Tory Central Office inspired act-of -desperation, the 'magic money tree' meme? The first is the patronising tone: as if they were talking to idiots, as if there was nothing they could possibly understand about our economy. It is never difficult...
This is the first of a series of contributions which New Weather is setting out before the last week of the general election, about what has been glaringly missing from the campaign. There is clearly something about airlines which, beyond the other business sectors,...
Bill McGuire is a leading global authority on climate and geophysical hazards and a Professor Emeritus at UCL. Today, in the wake of President Donald Trump taking the United States out of the Paris climate agreement, he begins regular contributions to the New Weather...
The first thing we're not talking about is 'we'. Who are we, when it comes to this General Election in particular? And, to sign in for that master class in linguistics, what do we mean when we say 'talking'? I'm not about to attack politicians on the ground by saying...
Some years ago, fourteen to be precise, I wrote a book called Authenticity. The subtitle was 'Brands, fakes, spin and the lust for real life', which had a kind of ring to it. I've since written more in a collection of essays called The Age to Come. I was predicting...