I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t interested in science and natural history. It started with the typical little boy’s love of dinosaurs (thankfully toys and careers are a lot less gendered now than they were back then) and continued with David Attenborough’s groundbreaking Life on Earth series which …
JRI is pleased to support this important event at St Lawrence’s, Hungerford on Saturday 18th June from 10:00 til 16:00. Both our President, Dr Mike Morecroft, and our Director of Theology and Education, Revd Margot Hodson are keynote speakers and it promises to be an excellent day. Admission is free, …
Over the last 3 years, a sizeable chunk of my working (and non-working!) life has been given over to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest Assessment Report. This comes in three parts, each produced by a separate working group. The first is all about the physical climate science and …
It was a great privilege to be able to attend Sir John Houghton’s memorial service at the Neuadd Dyfi (Aberdyfi village hall) on Saturday 14th May 2022. Sir John was a founding father of JRI, the first Chair of our Board, and our former President. He died from the complications …
JRI is pleased to announce the publication of Briefing Paper number 47, ‘Natural Disasters and Human Responsibility’ by JRI Vice President Professor Robert White. The Briefing Paper is an adaptation of Faraday Paper number 25. The paper opens with the author’s summary: So-called ‘natural disasters’ such as floods, earthquakes and …
COP26 has passed, and by the time we meet on 30th April 2022 all three working groups on the 6th Assessment Report of the IPCC will have met. It is time to take stock of where we are on climate change and to assess what the future holds. So we …
