Events

In his urgent new book The Fate of the World, leading climate scientist and volcanologist Bill McGuire argues that many of the impacts of global heating are arriving sooner, and with greater force, than predicted. Drawing on Earth’s 4.6-billion-year history, he reveals what past climate change can tell us about our future. https://www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/folkestone-book-festival/

The University should support a reverse Manhattan Project linking universities across the world to limit climate and biodiversity catastrophes. It has to fulfil its duty of care for the future of its students.

Writer Talk: Bill McGuire Rochester Library, 7-8.45pm Bill McGuire is an academic, activist, broadcaster, and best-selling popular science and speculative fiction writer. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Geophysical and Climate Hazards at University College London. His non-fiction book ‘Hothouse Earth’ provides a ‘steely-eyed view on how we can cope with a hothouse world’.

How a changing climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes. A talk by Professor Bill McGuire.