Penny
Urquhart
Penny Urquhart is a climate-resilient development specialist, strategic advisor, policy analyst, and a writer. With over 30 years of international consulting experience, she was a Lead Author on the 2014 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report and a Member of the Scientific Committee for the ‘Our Common Future under Climate Change’ conference leading to the groundbreaking 2015 Paris climate negotiations. The author of several books on environmental sustainability, her writing increasingly integrates her longstanding interest in the arts and spirituality. Penny is currently working on a creative non-fiction book that interweaves conversations with climate scientists, artists, activists, and politicians into the larger matrix of the transforming world.
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The Cape of very hot to extremely hot
It feels like I am sitting in a marble cake of swirling temperatures. As the wind swings from landward to seaward and back again, I have the curious experience of having a front that is cooled while my back warms up – like a lizard swaying through moist grass on a...
Cape of Fires
High summer is fire season in South Africa’s Western Cape province. Nothing strange about that – the vegetation is dry, the winter rains long gone, and, well, that’s the way the spectacular fynbos likes it. Mountain fynbos on the Cape Peninsula. Source: By S...
Burn, baby, burn
Last week I thought we had the three hottest days on record. July 4th beat July 3rd and then was pipped at the post by July 5th. But it turns out that Thursday 6th July beat them all. So, the four hottest days on record. Consecutively. This is the kind of one-upmanship we can do without.
