Selected writing

On climate peril and paralysis. Quarterly Essay (in prep, June 2024).

The summer ahead. The Monthly, 1 September 2023.

Climate crisis deepens with El Niño. The Saturday Paper, 1 July 2023.

A climate scientist’s take on hope, in Not Too late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua, 04 April 2023.

What weather disaster will follow La Niña? The Saturday Paper, 28 January 2023.

An IPCC author on resisting the global influence of the fossil fuel industry, Crikey, 12 September 2022.

Humanity’s moment: ‘How can we find meaning in a world that is at once both heaven and hell?’ The Guardian, 10 September 2022.

Flood-hit regions brace for a third La Niña event, The Saturday Paper, 3 September 2022.

‘I feel my heart breaking today’ – a climate scientist’s path through grief towards hope, The Conversation, 26 August 2022.

Wildfires, in The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg, 27 October 2022.

Humanity’s Moment: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope, Black Inc Books, 30 August 2022.

I’m a climate scientist and writer: this election is the most important in Australia’s history, The Conversation, 19 May 2022.

Past the warning stage on climate, The Monthly, 28 March 2022.

Dire warming, The Saturday Paper, 14 August, 2021.

There is still so much worth saving, The Guardian, 10 August 2021

Yes, Australia is a land of flooding rains. But climate change could be making it worse. The Conversation, 24 March 2021.

Elemental summer: A season of change. The Griffith Review, November 2020.

The great unravelling. The Guardian, 15 October 2020.

Witnessing the unthinkable. The Monthly, 29 June 2020.

Some say we’ve seen bushfires worse than this before. But they’re ignoring a few key facts, The Conversation, 13 January 2020.

We are seeing the very worst of our scientific predictions come to pass in these bushfires. The Guardian 3 January 2020.

Emergency on planet Earth. Harper’s Bazaar, December 2019, p 54–55.

I never thought I’d see the Australian rainforest burning. What will it take for us to wake up to the climate crisis? The Guardian 10 September 2019.

The terrible truth of climate change. The Monthly, 1 August 2019.

Sunburnt Country: The future and history of climate change in Australia, MUP, April 2018.