by Andrew Simms | 10 March 2020 | Blog, Rapid Transition
Lindsay Mackie and Andrew Simms explore how crises reveal fundamental flaws in underlying political and economic models and call for a new approach It looks like it’s going to be a national emergency, or, in Whitehall terms, a very grave civil contingency. Novel...
by Andrew Simms | 6 January 2020 | Blog, Daily Climate Denial, Weather Bombs
Australia is a canary in the coal mine of global heating, Bill McGuire, Prof of Geophysical & Climate Hazards and New Weather co-director, unpacks the irony that one of the world’s least welcoming nations to migrants, could shortly find many of its citizens...
by Andrew Simms | 2 January 2020 | Blog, The Economics Reformation
Each year the Financial Times newspaper investigates the UK’s upcoming economic prospects with a survey of analysts. New Weather’s Andrew Simms took part. The survey’s predictions often prove highly accurate. Like last year, the uncertainty of Brexit still...
by Andrew Simms | 19 November 2019 | Blog, Daily Climate Denial, Weather Bombs
As reported in this BBC News article, New Weather Institute co-director, Prof Bill McGuire has resigned from the Geological Society over its relationships with fossil fuel companies, following 40 years of membership. In a short introduction and his open resignation...
by Andrew Simms | 28 October 2019 | Blog, Modern Folk Tales
Buy it here: Knock Three Times – 28 modern folk tales for a troubled world edited by Andrew Simms and Bill McGuire for New Weather. Click here and listen at 35 mins 15 secs to BBC Radio 4’s coverage of Knock Three Times “All you can talk about is...
