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'.
Climate Uncensored is a new blog, YouTube channel, podcast and resource base providing honest, unflinching comment and analysis of the challenges facing us in the climate emergency. It is a collaboration between climate researchers Professor Kevin Anderson and Dr Dan Calverley. The name, Climate Uncensored, inverts the self-censorship that we…