I worked in oil exploration for 20 years and for 10 of those I felt increasingly uncomfortable about the contribution I was making to climate change, until my conscience wouldn’t let me remain. I’ve never doubted that climate change is real and caused by humans, so what kept me in the industry so long? Ultimately it was my fascination with geophysics and a genuine love of working with data: analysing properties, spotting patterns, solving complex technical problems and presenting our findings. Also, seismic data is pretty (see below). At the end of the day, though, something as complex and challenging as seismic imaging can’t be done without the motivation that comes with a belief in the final product.
Now I am transferring my skills to the very pressing problem of climate change, in particular communicating how it will affect commercial enterprises, which I aim to do in this blog. This is a journey for me, so my analyses may be imperfect and I am very happy to discuss my posts. However I will not engage with anyone who argues anthropogenic climate change is not real: that argument has no credibility in the 21st century.
Our Changing Earth 