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The science says that more or better climate education won’t convince sceptics. Here’s what we can do instead.
The most vulnerable people bear the brunt of an ineffective energy system that prioritises profit over the consumer.
The jet stream is being distorted on both sides by fast-warming tropical and Arctic air. Should the tropics win out, weather patterns could change profoundly.
William Nordhaus’ predictions of what the climate crisis will cost the earth are dangerously at odds with climate science.
The signs of spring are advancing at different rates - and the consequences for ecosystems could be disastrous.
The UN body responsible for communicating the science of climate breakdown has released its long-awaited report on how we’re changing our ice and oceans. In a nutshell, the news isn’t good.
Humans have never known a world without the Araucaria. But rising temperatures and changing rainfall mean that the extinction of these majestic trees may be just a generation or two away.
Can new language change the way the public and politicians perceive the hazards of the Earth’s changing climate?
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Professor of Oceanography and Climate, University of Southampton
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Honorary Professor of Economics, UCL
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Professor of Polar Oceanography, The Open University
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Associate Senior Lecturer, Durrell Institute for Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent
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Professor of Energy Policy, Member of Fuel Poverty Evidence and Trustee of the Fuel Poverty Research Network, Sheffield Hallam University
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Professor & Director, Global Ecological Change & Sustainability Laboratory, University of Guelph
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Knowledge Exchange Fellow, University of York
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Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Liverpool
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Professor in Physical Climate Science, University of Oxford
