I’ve contributed to a range of TV, radio and online media. I was the on-screen presenter and co-producer for the short documentary feature The Race is On which explores some of the secrets and solutions of climate change. [Apologies – the list below is incomplete. Perhaps one day I will find the time to track everything down and organise this page]
Ecoshock Radio, 24th October 2024. “The dangerous myth of overshoot”. Interview available here, podcast recording here.
Planet Critical, 10th October 2024. “How Net Zero Killed 1.5”. Interview and discussion podcast here, video here.
GND Media, podcast “We are living through absurdity”. Interview and discusion on 1.5, net zero and more. Recording available here.
TRT, broadcast 11th January 2023. Panel discussion “Can we reverse global warming?”. Recording available here.
Byline TV, broadcast 8th November 2022. Discussion and reflections about COP27 and wider issues around climate policy. Available online here.
TED Countdown 15th June 2022. “We must end our dangerous wishful thinking about net zero”. Recording available here.
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) radio, broadcast 17th July 2022. “The real worth of net zero is debateable”. Available online here.
Forbes interview “Is ‘Net Zero’ Our Best Hope For Curbing Emissions Or A ‘Dangerous Trap’ Of Self-Delusion?” 5th January 2022. Available online here.
College of Life and Environmental Sciences lecture, University of Exeter “Net zero: fact, theory and wishful thinking”. Available online here.
Planet:Critical interview 14th October 2021. “Net-Zero Won’t Save Us”. Available online here.
The Conversation podcast How world leaders hope to reach net zero emissions by 2050 in which I discuss carbon removal and other aspects of net zero policies. Available online here.
BBC Radio Cornwall, broadcast 1st October. I discussed COP26 and climate action with presented Julie Skentelbery. Available online here.
ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science invited talk “Net Zero: fact, theory and wishful thinking”, 15th September 2021. Available online here.
Alife Conference Keynote “The autonomous Earth: How humans created a planetary civilisation that is beyond their control’ 14th September 2021. Available online here.
ABC Rear Vision, broadcast 5th September 2021. I contributed to the broadcast: Carbon capture and storage—an expensive distraction or the answer to global warming? Available online here.
Interview with Actuary Magazine 1st September. I link climate policy failures with the need for academics (and actuaries) to become more engaged in wider social issues. Available online here.
Interview in NRC newspaper 13th August 2021. I spoke about working within the climate and ecological crisis. Available online here (in Dutch) and pdf here.
BBC Radio 4 The Briefing Room, broadcast 22nd July 2021. I discussed net zero and COP26 with presenter David Aaronovitch. Available online here.
The Owl Hoot podcast 24th June 2021. I discussed climate change and Earth system science. Available online here.
Scientists Warning TV. I discussed net zero with Wolfgang Knorr and Alison Green. Available online here.
Bloomberg Radio, broadcast 4th May 2021. I discussed net zero climate policies with the hosts of Daybreak Europe.
BBC Radio 5 Live Science, broadcast 2nd May. I contributed to a discussion segment on climate change and net zero. Available online here (from 38 minutes).
Times Radio, broadcast 22nd April 2021. I discussed recent developments in climate policy with Kait Borsay.
BBC Radio Devon, broadcast 5th March 2021. I contributed to a segment on National Trust climate change adaptation map. Available online here.
Interview with University of Exeter about how we may be able #BuildBackBetter from the COVID-19 crisis. Available online here.
What is Gaia? How can a planetary-scale perspective help us better understand human nature? A talk I gave at the Lovelock Centenary conference Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter, 2019. Availabe online here.
Discussion with Poetry of Predicament YouTube channel about my The Conversation / Independent long read article Climate change: ‘We’ve created a civilisation hell bent on destroying itself – I’m terrified’, writes Earth scientist. Available online here.
Interview with Collapse Chronicles YouTube channel. Please note, I did not choose the title for this videos. The title for this article is incorrect as I never made the title statement or anything similar to it. But it’s an interesting dicussion nonetheless. Available online here.
I am the on screen presenter and co-producer of the climate change documentary The Race Is On: Secrets and solutions of climate change.
BBC Newshour, 26th July 2019. I discussed heatwaves and the need to rapidly adapt to global heating. Available online here.
Interview with Chris Stark, CEO of Committee on Climate Change, UK Government’s official advisory board, 10th July 2019. Available online here.
BBC Radio 2 Jeremy Vine Show. I contributed to a feature discussing recent extreme weather and climate change. Available online here.
BBC News Channel, 24th July 2018. I was interviewed by Clive Myrie about the role of climate change in the extreme weather events and wildfires around the world.
ABC RN 22nd July 2018. I contributed to the Science Friction episode on the Gaia Hypothesis. Available online here.
BBC 5 Live & BBC Radio Cambridge, 26th February 2017. I was interviewed by the Naked Scientists radio show team about climate change. Available online here.
I featured in a That’s Solent TV item on ecosystem canaries. Available online here.
BBC 5 Live & BBC Radio Cambridge, 6th May 2016. I was interviewed by the Naked Scientists radio show team about “peak phosphorus”. Available online here.
Iliad Media Development, 10th December 2015. I was featured in a short film about education innovation. Available online here.
The Environmental Litmus Test, 27th October 2015. I was featured in this short documentary about climate change and the then forthcoming United Nations climate meeting in Paris – COP21. Available online here.
BrightClub Southampton, 10th August 2015. I was the first science standup comedy act for the first BrightClub in Southampton. Please be advised that this was performed to an audience at night in a bar and so includes some “bad language and adult themes”, but it’s not too rude! Available online here.
Reddit Science AMA (Ask Me Anything), 5th February 2015. The Reddit science community ran an online question and answer session about my article “Is humanity in the existential danger zone?”. Available online here.
TEDxMiltonKeynes, 8th May 2014. A TED style talk in which I make the case for why we need to care about future generations. Available online here.
CS4 Interviews, 2011-2014. For three years I ran the Complex Systems Simulation Seminar Series (CS4). Before the seminar I would interview the speaker. Here I am chatting with Dr Helen Czerski.
Interdisciplinary Research Week, 22nd February 2012. I gave the closing public lecture during which I outlined some of the major environmental challenges we will face by the middle of this century. Available online here.
BBC2, 1st October 2006, BBC – Discovery Channel – Open University. Battle of the Geeks science adventure show presented by Richard Hammond. I was one of six “geeks” tasked with transporting an egg across the largest canyon in the southern hemisphere. Available online here.