The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.

The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.

Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades

Looking back, I underestimated the risks. The planet and the atmosphere seem to be absorbing less carbon than we expected, and emissions are rising pretty strongly. Some of the effects are coming through more quickly than we thought then.

Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century.

Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.

As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.