by Bill McGuire | 13 July 2021 | Blog, Weather Bombs
With bad news from the global heating front arriving in lorry loads, it is becoming ever more difficult to stay positive about our chances of successfully tackling the climate emergency. The astonishing temperatures across the western United States and Pacific...
by Bill McGuire | 9 February 2021 | Blog, Weather Bombs
More bad news was brought in January looking back over the previous year. Unsurprisingly, 2020 was either the hottest year ever recorded, according to NASA, or – the UK Met Office determines – it was just squeezed into second place by 2016. What is not in doubt is...
by Bill McGuire | 29 September 2020 | Blog, Daily Climate Denial, Modern Folk Tales
In my just published eco-thriller, Skyseed, the untimely eruption of an obscure volcano in Bolivia dooms an illicit programme to engineer the climate to failure – and worse. The events that follow are pure fiction and hopefully will stay that way. Nonetheless,...
by Bill McGuire | 6 July 2020 | Blog, Rapid Transition, Weather Bombs
It’s not what most people want to hear at the moment, but the impact of Covid19 on society and economy is a gentle breeze compared to the hurricane that global heating and ensuing climate breakdown will ultimately bring. Some problems, when examined closely,...
by Bill McGuire | 10 April 2020 | Blog, Weather Bombs
Prof Bill McGuire writes that the pandemic is like a ‘waterless flood’ that is bracing us for what new studies suggest are much larger ones to come A little more than a decade ago, Margaret Atwood published The Year of the Flood – the second book in...
