'Climate Change and the Political Landscape: how conservative lawmakers can start addressing the risks without losing their seats' guest blog by Steve Pierson and Leonard Smith in Scientific American, 6 March 2018.
Invited essay on 'Climate Models as Economic Guides: Scientific Challenge or Quixotic Quest?' (Issues, Spring 2015). Issues in Science and Technology, National Academy of Science. Summer 2015.
'Climate Change by Numbers' Consultant for the BBC Four documentary, broadcast 2 March 2015.
'Trading on climate surprises' Pauline Barrieu and Leonard Smith in Trading Risk, 22, 9, April 2010.
'Making Room for Uncertainty' Leonard Smith in a two-page interview by Fred Pearce of the New Scientist, 3 December 2008.
Obituary of Professor Edward Lorenz, The Observer, 26 April 2008.
'Unproven Theories Have Value', The Times, letters to the Editor, 30 November 2007.
Using ensemble weather forecasts to manage utilities risk, Mary Altalo and Leonard Smith in Environmental Finance, October 2004, 48-49 ISSN 1468-8573.
'Predicting the Unpredictable' guest on BBC Radio 4 The Material World, 11 April 2002.
Weather Watch in EPSRC Newsline Mathematics, July 2001.
'Feeding Frenzy is short of juice' in the Times Higher Education Supplement, 18 August 2000. A review of The Predictors by Thomas A. Bass.
'Rough Survey of how ticks all add up' in the Times Higher Education Supplement textbook guide, 26 May 2000. A review of Econophysics by R. Mantegna and H.E. Stanley.
Other Media Presence
Professor Smith has been quoted in news stories in Nature, New Scientist, BBC News, BBC Radio 4, Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph (selected citations are available on the CATS website). Smith’s research program has twice been the cover feature of the LSE Magazine.