During a recent visit (October 2025) to the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Kevin Anderson was asked three climate related questions: In this 10 minute video recording Kevin provides succinct answers to each. The transcript of a longer set of questions and answers (in addition to those above) is available at:…
A comment on the Tim Harford and Channel 4’s Skint: The Truth About Britain’s Broken Economy and how the hand waving dismissal of the climate challenges accompanying the proposed ‘growth’ panacea is not supported by the data. As a frequent listener to “More or Less”, I decided to watch Tim…
The final text from COP28 is a death knell for the stronger 1.5°C commitment of the Paris Agreement and even puts the much weaker 2°C obligation on critical life-support. No doubt there will be lots of cheer and back-slapping among many pontificators and even some climate ‘experts’, but the physics…
A few days ago I was commissioned by the energy and environment section editor at The Conversation to elaborate on my contribution to the recent Guardian article, “Who are the polluter elite?”. After a few minor edits and references, my expanded text was approved and I was advised that it…
In a recent interview with Nick Breeze for Climate.Genn.cc, Kevin offers his thoughts on the co-option of the COP process by fossil fuel lobbyists, the prospects for system change, and the role of civil society in bringing about political change. They also discuss how speculative negative emission technologies and hydrogen…
A recent short paper in the Nature family of journals offers six expert viewpoints of the key issues relating to carbon dioxide removal as a means of mitigating climate change. Contributions by Holly Jean Buck, Lili Fuhr, Oliver Geden, Glen Peters, Eve Tamme and Climate Uncensored’s Kevin Anderson. Kevin summarises:…
This is a quick response to UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak’s, cynical backpedalling on the UK’s already weak climate policies. The physics of the climate responds to the build up of emissions in the atmosphere and not Net Zero 2050 or any other random end date. By weakening the UK’s…
This is a quick response to UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak’s, announcement of funding for a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Scotland. It also aims to correct the sloppy reporting about the role of CCS on BBC Radio 4’s flagship Today programme (31/07/23). 1. The specific technology is…
In the wake of the IPCC’s latest synthesis report, which confirms the urgent need for effective action on all fronts, we share the following text from a talk given by Kevin last year. It summarises the scale and types of action necessary if governments and societies were really committed to…
Never have the voices of civil society been so important. As the UK and German Governments choose lies over action on climate change, so they pass legislation to silence those pointing this out. Following one of Kevin Anderson’s tweets, he was asked by a major news outlet to elaborate on…
As COP27 drew to a close, the Science Media Centre asked Kevin, amongst others, for a quick comment on the success or otherwise of this latest climate jamboree. Below is a slightly updated version of Kevin’s statement.
Published as supplementary material to 'How Alive is 1.5? Part One: A small budget, shrinking fast'.
For a 50:50 chance of staying below 1.5°C, we’re using up the remaining carbon budget at around 1% every month. An ‘outside chance’ of not exceeding 1.5°C remains viable, but ongoing fossil fuel use is rapidly undermining it.
It is now impossible to address the climate emergency without making equity central to the solution. In 2015 the countries of the world came together in Paris and agreed to cut emissions to hold global warming to “well below 2°C” and ideally to not exceed 1.5°C [1]. The Paris Agreement…
Before we start releasing new content in earnest over coming weeks, we’d like to elaborate on the rationale for Climate Uncensored. Specifically, what’s with the name? It’s now thirty years since the United Nation’s first major Earth Summit (Rio 1992) recognised the urgent challenges posed by anthropogenic climate change. Yet,…