by Bill McGuire | Apr 10, 2023 | Blog, Rapid Transition, Weather Bombs
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 If you want a book about the grim future we will face as global heating bites ever harder to...
by Andrew Simms | Feb 1, 2022 | Blog, Creative Thinking
Contagious Tales is a new collection of short stories that turns our troubled times into modern folk tales to shine a light on how we got here and illuminate the way ahead. It takes an imaginatively different look at our current crises, from the climate emergency to...
by Bill McGuire | Jul 13, 2021 | Blog, Weather Bombs
With bad news from the global heating front arriving in lorry loads, it is becoming ever more difficult to stay positive about our chances of successfully tackling the climate emergency. The astonishing temperatures across the western United States and Pacific...
by Lindsay Mackie | Apr 3, 2021 | Blog, Rapid Transition
It’s time to put the secateurs, herbicide and peat compost away and let the over-manicured English village return to nature. Thirty years ago we bought a rather rat infested – alright, very rat infested – cottage, and have enjoyed it ever since. It’s where...
by Bill McGuire | Feb 9, 2021 | Blog, Weather Bombs
More bad news was brought in January looking back over the previous year. Unsurprisingly, 2020 was either the hottest year ever recorded, according to NASA, or – the UK Met Office determines – it was just squeezed into second place by 2016. What is not in doubt is...
