by sk-admin | Oct 8, 2026 | Uncategorised
Is it just me – or do you feel the same? That this year we have crossed a climate Rubicon? It began in January with catastrophic floods across Southern Africa which claimed hundreds of lives. That same month heatwaves and wildfires ravaged Australia,...
by sk-admin | Apr 9, 2026 | News, Notes from a Warming World, Uncategorised
This week I want to explore the issue of how to reckon with accountability for climate change. According to the 2025 Climate Inequality Report the world’s richest 10% – which includes most of us – are responsible for nearly half (47%) of global carbon...
by sk-admin | Mar 28, 2025 | Uncategorised
If you are concerned about climate change and the environment – not to say Ukraine and Israel Palestine too – it’s tough right now with the White House gutting environmental regulations, sacking government scientists, ending funding to crucial agencies, and with...
by sk-admin | Jan 8, 2025 | News, Notes from a Warming World, Uncategorised
Although Christmas was exceptionally mild, it was no heatwave. So this may not the best time of the year to be reading and writing about heatwaves. However, an alarming report by World Weather Attribution (a network of climate researchers) and Climate...
by sk-admin | Dec 3, 2024 | News, Notes from a Warming World, Uncategorised
If global food waste were a country, it would rank as the world’s third largest emitter contributing 8- 10% of harmful greenhouse gases, after China (30.7%) and USA (13.7%). That stark fact ought to be a wake-up call to everyone. And so should this: the global...
by sk-admin | Oct 2, 2024 | News, Notes from a Warming World, Uncategorised
So big are the three topics of climate change, nature loss and waste that, in responding to them, it is difficult to know where to start. Recently I came across a very useful framework for thinking and doing which might be helpful. It is called ‘What? So what? Now...
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