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Bet you didn’t know this about the Iron Lady
This week I went to a great talk by Prof Jonathan Boston on the politics of global climate change. Here are some of the slides. I have to confess that his last slide was a surprise to me. While American right-wing denials fill our media we have failed to notice that almost every other conservative […]
Green energy myths causing paralysis
September 2, 2009
There is a belief that alternative clean energy sources and technologies will substitute for fossil fuels to meaning we can carry on living like we are now. Dr Susan Krumdieck says this myth is dangerous, it has “induced paralysis when change is needed…we need to use less energy…we need to stop driving around so much”. Every […]
Bill McKibben’s 350ppm at 46 South
May 1, 2009
We had Bill McKibben visiting work yesterday. He gave a good talk and stayed for lunch. Bill has been in Wanaka and started his talk with a compelling story of an experience in Tibet, of glaciers melting and significantly changing landscape in an area that provides the water supply for a huge proportion of […]
Climate Change Unfinished or Too Late?
September 24, 2008
The second Lonnie Thompson and Ellen Mosley-Thompson talk this week was a panel discussion titled “Climate Change: Unfinished Business”. Two locals, marine ecologist Steve Wing and geologist Garry Wilson) were also panelists but it was clear who the big crowd had come to hear. Here’s my notes (apologies to the participants if I scribbled anything misleading). Brief introductions from the […]
Lonnie Thompson conveniently in Dunedin
September 24, 2008
We’ve been to two Lonnie Thompson and Ellen Mosley-Thompson talks this week. I was very impressed. The first “Climate change: past present and future” was an overview of their thirty years of research into icecores. The talk took an interesting approach. Thompson didn’t muck around. Two slides at the start cover the contributing factors […]
Computing for Sustainability 
March 16, 2012
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