Zara Qadir, Communications Manager at the Sustainable Gas Institute, discusses why climate scientists need to step onto their soapboxes – and how to go about it.
Category: Climate scepticism
Is climate change above ‘post-truth’?
In this opinion piece, Luke Bevan discusses the modern ethical challenges of communicating climate change science to the general public.
Carbon dioxide: the good and the bad, the right and the wrong
Professor Colin Prentice, AXA Chair in Biosphere and Climate Impacts “Carbon Dioxide: The Good News” – This is the title of…
Taking the planet’s temperature: How are global temperatures calculated?
Grantham intern Peter Davies (Department of Physics) delves into global temperature records. Statements such as “2014 earth’s warmest year on…
With climate models, simpler isn’t necessarily better
Grantham Institute Co-Director Professor Joanna Haigh discusses a recent paper which argues that existing climate models ‘run hot’ and overstate the extent of manmade…
In defence of biomass energy
By Professor Colin Prentice, AXA Chair in Biosphere and Climate Impacts Further to previous posts on this blog regarding Owen Paterson’s recent speech…
Has climate change been exaggerated? Fact-checking Owen Paterson’s comments
By Dr Flora Whitmarsh, Grantham Institute In a lecture to the Global Warming Policy Foundation, the former UK Environment Secretary Owen Paterson…
Paterson misses the point
By Dr Simon Buckle, Grantham Institute Owen Paterson’s remarks on the UK response to climate change miss the point. I do…
Ocean heat uptake – checking the facts
By Dr Flora Whitmarsh, Grantham Institute The recent slowdown in global temperature rise has led to suggestions that global warming…
Ocean warming in the media
A recent paper on ocean warming has been reported on in a number of newspaper articles, most recently by Christopher…