Two big talking points have dominated climate politics in the UK this summer: whether the new PM should authorise exploitation of the Rosebank (oil) and Jackdaw (gas) fields in the North Sea and what the country should be doing to better cope with summer heatwaves and drought. These topics were also in the air 50 […]
Our final manuscript for this new book, co-written with Sarah Dry and a spin-out product from the Leverhulme ‘Making Climate History’ project, is now in production with Princeton University Press. Our short marketing blurb for the book is here: “This book tells the history of global temperature, a hugely consequential number which shapes global politics […]
Candis Callison, ‘How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts’ (Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 316pp.) 1 August 2026. This is roughly an 8 minute read. This essay continues my series of monthly posts in which I select one ‘climate’ book to highlight and review from one of the 44 years of […]
