Economic prospects for 2019: New Weather and the FT survey
Each year the Financial Times newspaper investigates the UK’s upcoming economic prospects with a survey of analysts. New Weather took part. Last year, says the paper, the survey’s predictions proved highly accurate. For most the uncertainty of Brexit now clouds many...
Bill McGuire joins New Weather and issues a major climate warning
The New Weather Institute welcomes Bill McGuire, the world leading academic authority on climate hazards to its team. Bill has been writing for New Weather for many months, and now he will be even more involved with our work on a rapid transition to a fair economy...
Smog Day fell as pollution rose & one of Europe’s worst air quality countries holds climate talks
The possibility of rapid transition comes from accepting how much we are a part of nature and its cycles argue Nick Robins and Andrew Simms and marking Smog Day is one way to reconnect On 5th December 1952, a great smog enveloped London, England, killing thousands,...
The Rapid Transition Alliance – evidence-based hope in a warming world
As scientists call for rapid, far reaching action to prevent climate breakdown, and warn that time is running out, a new, unique international initiative - the Rapid Transition Alliance - is launching to reveal the possibilities and our hidden capacities for making...
Why the climate contrarians lost the argument
This post is taken from Richard Black’s new book Denied... This is the story of a coup-d’état that failed. A coup against science, against the will of peoples from the Arctic to the Equator, against nature itself. A coup attempt that, although it has failed, may have...
The mindset behind the dwindling reputation of UK railways
The Brighton Belle was famous for its kippers. Laurence Olivier would take a leisurely breakfast back to his home in Ashurst in Sussex on the train after a West End triumph, reading the theatre reviews. The train began life in June 1934 and most of the brown and cream...
The hills are alive with the sound of progress
Lindsay Mackie writes about how a formerly poor, marginal corner of Austria made the transition to be a thriving green economy The Vorarlberg region of Austria didn’t start off with many of the advantages which have made other places rich in the modern world. No...
Why sweetening the climate pill threatens the wrong dose of action
Bill McGuire writes that the IPCC was wrong to water down its toughest message yet on preventing climate breakdown Seeing climate change at the very top of the news agenda after publication of the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C warming was immensely...
Smoking, drink-driving… is climate the next big behaviour change challenge?
A new report says climate change is a public health crisis needing behaviour change similar to smoking, drink driving or HIV/AIDS. Efforts to change public behaviour to address climate change must learn from the great campaigns of previous decades on smoking, drink...
Vorarlberg… Reasons to be cheerful.
Lindsay Mackie writes about coming down from the mountains with ideas about how our economics and politics can become better rooted and able to give communities what they need The losses we have endured over the past ten years since the Banking Crash of 2008 are not...