Why I Wrote Hothouse Earth
As the latest data reveals global average sea surface temperatures hitting a record high, Prof Bill McGuire explains why he wrote his uncompromising bestseller, Hothouse Earth
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Contagious Tales of hope
Contagious Tales is a new collection of short stories that turns our troubled times into modern folk tales to shine
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Death in the valley – is this finally the alarm that can’t be ignored?
With bad news from the global heating front arriving in lorry loads, it is becoming ever more difficult to stay
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Re-Green the Village
It’s time to put the secateurs, herbicide and peat compost away and let the over-manicured English village return to nature.
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Global heating – a glimmer of light in the gloom?
More bad news was brought in January looking back over the previous year. Unsurprisingly, 2020 was either the hottest year
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Badvertising – stop adverts fuelling the climate emergency
‘Badvertising’ is a new campaign to stop adverts fuelling the climate emergency. This includes ads for cars, airline flights and fossil
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National Gardening Leave: an opportunity to reinvent working lives and urban spaces
How often are ideas that once seemed radical and to some, even preposterous, made tame by the turn of events?
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Is Australia becoming uninhabitable?
Australia is a canary in the coal mine of global heating, Bill McGuire, Prof of Geophysical & Climate Hazards and
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Economic prospects for 2020: New Weather and the FT survey
Each year the Financial Times newspaper investigates the UK’s upcoming economic prospects with a survey of analysts. New Weather’s Andrew Simms took
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New Weather co-director Prof Bill McGuire resigns from scientific body over fossil fuel funding – full letter
As reported in this BBC News article, New Weather Institute co-director, Prof Bill McGuire has resigned from the Geological Society
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