The Fate of the World: The History & Future of the Climate Crisis by Bill McGuire, was released today on 21st May 2026. Bill McGuire is a volcanologist, climate scientist, activist, keynote speaker and writer of popular science and speculative fiction.
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Bill is Professor Emeritus of Geophysical & Climate Hazards at UCL, a Co-director of the New Weather Institute, a Patron of Scientists for Global Responsibility, and Special Scientific Advisor to WordForest.Org. Bill has a personal connection with the founding editor of Centre of the Web, Matthew Azuley: Bill kindly wrote the introduction, for free, for the anthology Climate Collapse? -Calls to Action from Around the World, compiled and edited by Matthew Azuley and published by Arkbound.
Matthew is delighted about the release of Bills new book, although perhaps delighted is not quite the right word to use, in the context of unfolding climate collapse. Matthew remembers how impressed he was with Bills very accessible introduction text for Climate Collapse? Bill is a great science communicator, and he puts to shame other climate science communicators. Below is an example, an extract from the introduction to Climate Collapse?
We are in deep, deep sh*t. It’s what I told a BBC journalist interviewing me in 2021 about our failing climate, and nothing has happened since to alter my view. Indeed, things have gotten considerably worse. Whether we accept it or not, our climate is already broken to such a degree that it will have a colossal impact upon every aspect of our lives, the lives of our children and their children, and the lives of those to come, not just for years, but for millennia. 2023 and 2024 were the hottest on record, and quite probably saw the highest temperatures since the warmth of the last interglacial period, 125,000 years or so ago. Already supercharged weather has become even more monstrous, exemplified by catastrophic flooding in Spain and apocalyptic wildfires in southern California. Prospects are bleak, to say the least, but before delving more deeply into the future of our overheating world, let’s begin with the current state of play...
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