Alasdair Skelton was born at Loch Ness, Scotland in 1968. As Professor of Geochemistry and Petrology at Stockholm University, he has published over seventy academic papers on geology, earthquakes, tsunamis and climate change. He was also Director of the Bolin Centre for Climate Research for 9 years.
As a climate activist, he co-founded Researcher’s Desk and has supported the youth who created the climate movement that must change the world. In his lifetime, he has witnessed climate change that would have taken four million years to occur naturally.
Our Time: Finding Hope in a Climate Crisis is about a four-billion-year journey to a single moment in time, when one species gets to decide to protect all that it cherishes, or to stand by and watch as the climate crisis engulfs it all. The storyteller is a professor of geology, who did not understand what it all meant, until it was explained to him by the children of the world.
Our Time: Finding Hope in a Climate Crisis can be purchased from Akademibokandeln (Sweden), Bloomsbury (UK) and Amazon (EU, US, rest of world).
I teach courses in English and Swedish, on campus and online, at most academic levels, on climate, geology, philosophy and history of science. Here are a few of my courses.
As a member of Researchers’ Desk and a researcher working on climate, and a father, I am committed to speaking clearly for members of the public about the climate crisis. Here are a few of my speeches.
