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COIN, the Climate Outreach and Information Network, recently published a great report called After the floods: communicating climate change around extreme weather, which set out to explore our “complex attitudes to climate change and extreme weather events”.  Why do extreme weather events not necessarily mean that people “get” climate change?

Stand by your newsstands!  May 1st sees the relaunch of Transition Free Press following its successful pilot which produced four very popular and high quality papers.  The relaunch also represents  a shift in emphasis for the paper.  I spoke to Alexis Rowell, TFP’s Managing Editor, who told me that

Those of us living and transitioning in the Upper Midwest of the United States have experienced climate change as “global weirding.”  In Minnesota, summers have gotten hotter and  more humid while formerly predictable summer rains have become nearly non-existent. When a single rain barrel once would suffice to water gardens

Well, I say a ‘quick’ trip…  Not flying, and living in a town whose train connection to the rest of the world was severely nibbled by the Atlantic, recently means that a day in Milan requires a full day to get there and a full day to get home again.

Perhaps those for whom the notion of ‘living with climate change’ is most acutely felt are farmers.  Their business models depend on the weather obliging them with good growing conditions, something it is increasingly failing to do.  We talked to Guy Watson, the founder of Riverford Organic Vegetables to hear

I have been ‘living with climate change’ for the last few years, living on the Somerset Levels with the highest ever recorded rain fall events causing vast flooding to the area.  For me this year it all started around Boxing Day when the road from the next village of Muchelney