It was a distinctly odd moment when I discovered today that there were Australian conference rumours that I had died, and I was relieved to discover that it wasn't true – another Prof Scott, it seems: Phil from Leeds.
When I heard the rumour from colleagues, I felt a surge of well-being, as though I'd had a narrow escape: as I said, distinctly odd.
Did you see that Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, told an audience in London: “We have two years to save the world.” I didn't and am grateful to Dominic Lawson in The Times...
Here's a rather impassioned article from the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit [ECIU] about the significance of the UK's ~1% on-shore [*] contribution to global emissions. It's the Tesco argument. It essentially says that although 1% is small compared with...
Our World in Data [OWD] reports that a 2024 study in Nature Climate Change asked around 130,000 people if they’d be willing to give at least 1% of their income to tackle climate change, and that, across a 125-country sample,...
Dear Bill,
Very glad to hear you are still with us! Must have been very strange!
From all at Tide~