Category: Climate breakdown

Leadership Matters at Aston Business School: Speaking truth to power

It was an honour and a privilege to be one of three people on the panel for the first Leadership Matters event of the academic year at Aston Business School last Thursday. Its subject: Leadership through crisis.

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The Game at the Warwick Crop Centre: Interim Report

NOTE: The request for comments, amendments et al is now closed. Many thanks to all those who responded! This is the link to the final edition of our Report on The Game at Warwick University: UK food security into...

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The effects of high temperatures on the human body — and on livestock and crops too

I was lucky enough to spend time in Sante Fe. One day a colleague walked into the office, took one look at me and said, “Drink Kate!” I was wilting before her eyes.

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The Holocene has given way to the Anthropocene

The world has been a good place, climate-wise, for humans for the last 11,000 years, an epoch known as the Holocene. We’ve flourished.

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Latitude: A perspective on UK food security

Birmingham is just below the 53rd parallel, marked by a red line in the map below, nearly two thirds of the way up from the Equator towards the North Pole.

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Tomato-gate? We ain’t seen nothing yet!

A hotter world will disrupt our food supplies. What can we learn from tomato-gate?

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Tropical storms, volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis

To add even more to the woes outlined the previous blogpost, geophysical mayhem is likely in times of rapid global heating.

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Climate breakdown tipping points

Notice the proviso, providing no tipping points are breached above the words “business as usual” in the infographic

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