Bob Ward
Policy and Communications Director
Bob joined the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) in November 2008.
He also holds the following positions:
Background| | Media articles| | Policy articles| | Research articles|
Background
Bob joined the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) from Risk Management Solutions, where he was Director of Public Policy.
He also worked at the Royal Society, the UK national academy of science, for eight years, until October 2006. His responsibilities there included leading the media relations team.
He has also worked as a freelance science writer and journalist.
Bob has a first degree in geology and an unfinished PhD thesis on palaeopiezometry.
He is a Fellow of the Geological Society.
Media articles
2013
Spectator reveals worrying insight into direction of Tory policy on climate|
Bob Ward, The Guardian, 10 May
PR smokescreen cannot hide the holes in climate teaching proposals|
Bob Ward, The Guardian (blog), 29 April
Ukip's energy and climate policies under the spotlight
|Bob Ward, The Guardian (blog), 4 March
How Fleet Street is still misleading the public over climate change |
Bob Ward, New Statesman, 27 February
Secret funding of climate sceptics is not restricted to the US |
Bob Ward, The Guardian, 15 February
Boris Johnson's climate change "scepticism" is an embarrassment to London's scientists
|Bob Ward, New Statesman, 23 January
What a heatwave in Australia tells us about climate change and the extreme weather of the future
|Bob Ward, The Independent, 8 January
Meteorology needs bold leadership to build public trust in climate research
|Bob Ward, The Guardian, 8 January
2012
[Re: US energy policy is thriving despite a quiet campaign, yesterday]
|Bob Ward, City AM (letter), 6 November
Peter Lilley's flawed climate analysis|
Bob Ward, The Guardian (letter), 28 October
Rapid responses|
Bob Ward, City A.M. (letter), 8 October
UK government cuts to science funding threaten the British Antarctic Survey|
Bob Ward, Huffington Post, 3 October
The Australian echo chamber of climate change denial
|Bob Ward, Huffington Post, 10 September
Why is Boris Johnson promoting climate change "sceptics"?
|Bob Ward, New Statesman, 1 August
The BBC is sacrificing objectivity for impartiality on climate change
|Bob Ward, Huffington Post, 6 July
Climate confusion
|Bob Ward, The Times (subscription is required; letter), 6 July
Leaders not plugged in to climate change reality
|Bob Ward, Financial Times (free registration is required), 2 July
What is the 'polluter pays' principle?|
Bob Ward and Naomi Hicks, The Guardian, 2 July
Flash floods are on the rise, while the budget to tackle them sinks
|Bob Ward, The Guardian, 18 May
More evidence that the world's biggest newspaper website is misleading its readers about climate change
|Bob Ward, Huffington Post, 10 April
Another researcher falls victim to the echo chamber of climate change denial|
Bob Ward, Huffington Post, 2 April
News Corporation, the Murdochs and climate change
|Bob Ward, Huffington Post, 5 March
Heartland Institute leak exposes strategies of climate attack machine
|Bob Ward, The Guardian, 21 February
Leaked files expose Heartland Institute's secrets|
Bob Ward, New Scientist, 16 February
2011
False sea level articles expose failure of UK press self-regulation
|Bob Ward, Huffington Post, 14 December
Is accuracy being frozen out of the BBC's climate change coverage?
|Bob Ward, Huffington Post, 8 December
Scientists frustrated in climate change debate
|Bob Ward, Financial Times (free registration is required), 3 December
Why the house journal of the sceptics is full of hot air
|Bob Ward, The Independent, 2 December
Hot air
|Bob Ward, Sunday Times (letter), 23 October
Lord Lawson's Global Warming Policy Foundation is spreading errors
|Bob Ward, The Guardian, 21 October
Paul Dacre's climate coverage undermines his case for self-regulation of the press
|Bob Ward, The Guardian (environment blog), 17 October
You've Been Trumped: film reveals tycoon's ruthless efforts to build Scottish golf resort
|Bob Ward, The Guardian (environment blog), 13 September
Is climate change science too trendy for school lessons?
|Bob Ward, Huffington Post, 17 August
An echo chamber of climate change denial
|Bob Ward, Huffington Post, 4 August
Climate pragmatism or climate illusion?
|Bob Ward and Alex Bowen, Huffington Post, 3 August
EUSJA news: United Kingdom| (PDF)
Bob Ward, Newsletter of the European Union of Science Journalists' Associations (EUSJA news), 15 July
The IPCC's review process
|Bob Ward, Economist (letter), 7 July
"Michael Gove wants the national curriculum to include the laws of thermodynamics but not "contemporary" subjects such as climate change"
|Bob Ward, The Times (letter; subscription is required), 27 June
Optimism about renewables
|Bob Ward, The Independent (letter), 24 June
The Daily Mail owners buy climate change, so why doesn't the paper?
|Bob Ward, The Guardian, 16 June
Climate change education can still be part of a slimmed-down curriculum
|Bob Ward, The Guardian, 13 June
America's climate choice: Put up or shut up
|Bob Ward, New Scientist, The S Word (blog), 17 May
Why science is a vote winner
|Bob Ward, New Scientist, The S Word (blog), 6 May
Lord Lawson's incredible complacency on climate change
|Bob Ward, Sunday Times (subscription required), 10 April; MS Word doc|
Inflation erodes UK science budget
|Bob Ward,
The S Word (blog),
New Scientist, 29 March
Climategate controversy continues
|Bob Ward, New Scientist, The S Word (blog), 18 March
Wettest autumn
|Bob Ward, The Telegraph (letter), 13 March
Why the BBC's 'impartial' stance on climate science is irresponsible
|Bob Ward, The Guardian, 3 March
Has the impact of 'Climategate' worn off?
|Bob Ward, The S Word (blog), New Scientist, 14 February
More investment needed in UK's research base|
Bob Ward, Financial Times (letter), 5 February
Why have UK media ignored climate change announcements?
|Bob Ward, The Guardian, 13 January
Warming world
|Bob Ward, The Telegraph (letter), 2 January
2010
UK science allocation: more gloom
|Bob Ward, The S Word (blog), New Scientist, 20 December
UK research spend: cuts could reach 17 per cent|
Bob Ward, New Scientist, The S Word (blog), 28 October
Future economic growth depends on maintaining research and development
|Bob Ward, The Telegraph (letter), 19 October
Not so jolly hockey stick|
Bob Ward, Geoscientist Online (leader), 7 October
Sceptics' publishing record on climate change
|Bob Ward, The Science Show (radio transcript), Radio National, 2 October
Transparency is needed in climate change research|
Bob Ward, The Financial Times (registration is required), 29 September
Climate 'communism'
|Bob Ward, The Telegraph (letter), 14 September
Still wary of Bjørn Lomborg's pronouncements on climate change|
Dr Alex Bowen, Dr Simon Dietz, Dimitri Zenghelis and Bob Ward, The Guardian (letter), 2 September
Did climate sceptics mislead the public over the significance of the hacked emails?|
Bob Ward, The Guardian, 19 August
Climate-change thinking|
Bob Ward, The Economist (letter), 22 July
Thatcher becomes latest recruit in Monckton's climate sceptic campaign|
Bob Ward, The Guardian, 22 June
Royal Society and climate change|
Bob Ward, Times Online (letter), 1 June
How climate scientists can repair their reputation |
Bob Ward, New Scientist, 29 May
UK Royal Society revives confusion as US concludes climate change certainty|
Bob Ward, The Guardian, 28 May
We need to protect blue-sky research|
Bob Ward, The S Word, blog for New Scientist , 17 May
Climate sceptics guilty of double standards in condemnation over data
|Bob Ward, The Guardian, 5 March
Climate change data must be presented clearly
|Bob Ward, The Times (letter), 29 January
'Disastergate' is an excuse for IPCC critics to dig up old academic rows|
Bob Ward, The Guardian, 26 January
A mistake over Himalayan glaciers should not melt our priorities
Bob Ward, The Guardian, 18 January
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2009
Copenhagen climate change summit: We should not just keep calm and carry on, argues Bob Ward from the London School of Economics|
Bob Ward, Daily Mail, 11 December
Ian Plimer's uncritical coverage in the hacked emails row is frustrating|
Bob Ward, The Guardian, 8 December
Climate change denial is the new article of faith for the far right|
Bob Ward, The Guardian, 2 December
This climate email-hacking episode is generating more heat than light|
Bob Ward, The Guardian, 20 November
Climate change debate and the non-believers|
Bob Ward, The Times (letter), 17 November
People power is crucial to making Copenhagen a success|
Bob Ward, The Guardian, 10 September
Heaven and Earth by Ian Plimer|
Bob Ward, The Times , 22 August
Why ExxonMobil must be taken to task over climate denial funding|
Bob Ward, The Guardian, 1 July
Policy articles
2013
Hicks, N., Ward, B., and Lester, S. April 2013. Climate change in the National Curriculum in England: Submission to a consultation by the Department for Education. Policy paper, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London, UK. External link to full report |(PDF, 101KB)
Bassi, S., Rydge, J., Khor, C.S., Fankhauser, S., Hirst, N., and Ward, B. March 2013. A UK 'dash' for smart gas'. Policy brief, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, Leeds and London, UK. External link to full report| (PDF, 1.4MB)
2010
Ranger, N., Gohar, L., Lowe, J., Bowen, A., and Ward, R. August 2010. Mitigating climate change through reductions in greenhouse gas emissions: is it possible to limit global warming to no more than 1.5°C? Policy brief, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London, UK. Download PDF of brief| (PDF, 687KB)
Research articles
2010
Ward, R.E.T. October 2010. Communicating climate change. Weather, v.65, pp.309-310. External link to full article|
Ward, R. September 2010. Comment: 'Knock knock: where is the evidence for dangerous human-caused global warming?' by Robert M. Carter.
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Published: Economic Analysis and Policy, v.40, pp.125-143. Download PDF of paper (PDF, 975KB)
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Unpublished: Working paper, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London, UK. Download PDF of paper (PDF, 606KB)
2009
Ward, R.E.T. August 2009. Climate change, the public, and the media in the UK: a watershed moment. In: Boyce, T. and Lewis, J. (eds) Climate Change and the Media. Peter Lang Publishing Inc., New York, pp.59-64.
Herweijer, C., Ranger, N., and Ward, R.E.T. July 2009. Adaptation to climate change: threats and opportunities for the insurance industry. The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: issues and practice, v.34 pp.360-380. External link to full article|
Ward, R.E.T., Fong, J., Jones, B.E.M., Casselton, L.A., and Cox, S.J. 2009. How national science academies in developed countries can assist development in sub-Saharan Africa. International Journal of Technology Management, v.46, pp.9-26.
2008
Ward, R.E.T. November 2008. Good and bad practice in the communication of uncertainties associated with the relationship between climate change and weather-related natural disasters. In: Liverman, D.G.E., Pereira, C. and Marker, B. (eds) Communicating Environmental Geoscience, The Geological Society, London, Special Publications 305, pp.19-37.
Ward, R.E.T., Herweijer, C., Patmore, N., and Muir-Wood, R. January 2008. The role of insurers in promoting adaptation to the impacts of climate change. The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: Issues and Practice, v.33, pp.133-139. External link to full article| (PDF, 84.7KB)
2007
Ward, R.E.T., Muir-Wood, R., and Grossi, P. 2007. Flood risk in New Orleans: implications for future management. Geophysical Research Abstracts, v.9, 04542. External link to full article| (PDF, 30KB)
Ward, R.E.T. 2007. The Royal Society and the debate on climate change. In: Bauer, M.W. and Bucchi, M. (eds) Journalism, Science and Society: Science Communication between News and Public Relations. Routledge, New York, pp.159- 172.