[Rantman] Brutal logic of latest climate change from the Tyndall Centre..."Beyond Dangerous"

[rPauli]

Creating a stir, this ruthless, factual and very current information
updates scenarios of "How bad?" and  "How soon?"  
    Conclusion:   we need 10% emission reduction per year.    

Grist's Dave Roberts reports:

    ...credit to scientist Kevin Anderson
    <http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/369/1934/20.full.pdf+html> for
    stripping away the rosy assumptions hiding in many of today's common
    climate scenarios). To sum up: a rise in temperature of 2 degrees C
    (3.6 degrees F) will be extremely dangerous; a rise of 4 degrees C
    (7.2 degrees F) or higher could threaten civilization; the only way
    to avoid 2 degrees C -- or even 4 degrees C -- is a massive crash
    program that will likely involve, for the rich, industrialized
    countries of the world, peaking emissions in 2015 and declining them
    10 percent year-on-year after that. Alarming!      
    http://www.grist.org/climate-change/2011-12-16-brutal-logic-and-climate-communications


Watch, listen or read - a very long slide talk, audio or text.   
British - so one might listen carefully to understand Prof. Kevin
Anderson - of Univ. of Manchester and the Tyndall Centre for Climate
Change Research.

 -Watch -  One can quickly flip through informative slides or hear the
synced lecture:
    *"Climate Change: going beyond dangerous...brutal numbers & tenuous
hope"*
http://137.205.102.156/Ms%20S%20J%20Pain/20111124/Kevin_Anderson_-_Flash_(Medium)_-_20111124_05.26.31PM.html
<http://137.205.102.156/Ms%20S%20J%20Pain/20111124/Kevin_Anderson_-_Flash_%28Medium%29_-_20111124_05.26.31PM.html>

--Listen to the audio only*"Climate Change going beyond dangerous"  *

    http://richmedia.lse.ac.uk/publicLecturesAndEvents/20111021_1600_goingBeyondDangerousClimateChange.mp3

    Professor Kevin Anderson

    Recorded on 21 October 2011 in Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House.

    This lecture is part of the LSE Department of International
    Development Friday Lecture Series, which brings in leading figures
    from inside and outside of academia to speak on important current
    issues. A question and answer session will follow the talk. 

    Kevin Anderson is professor of energy and climate change in the
    School of Mechanical, Aeronautical and Civil Engineering at the
    University of Manchester. He has recently finished a two-year
    position as director of the Tyndall Centre, the UK's leading
    academic climate change research organisation, during which time he
    held a joint post with the University of East Anglia.


-- Read the report:  *"Beyond 'dangerous' climate change: emission
scenarios for a new world"*
           
http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/369/1934/20.full.pdf+html

FromGrist
http://www.grist.org/climate-change/2011-12-05-the-brutal-logic-of-climate-change  

  "Kevin Anderson
<http://www.mace.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/staff/academic/profile/?staffId=8>,
a professor of energy and climate change who was, until recently,
director of the U.K.'s leading climate research institution, theTyndall
Energy Program <http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/research/energy>. Anderson is a
publishing researcher himself and, in his capacity as Tyndall director,
was responsible for weaving together multiple lines of research and
evidence into a coherent story. This year, with his colleague Alice
Bows, he published a must-read paper called "Beyond 'dangerous' climate
change: emission scenarios for a new world
<http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/369/1934/20.full.pdf+html>"
[PDF]. If reading academic papers isn't your thing, he also delivers a
digestible presentation here
<http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=1208>,
or here with slides
<http://137.205.102.156/Ms%20S%20J%20Pain/20111124/Kevin_Anderson_-_Flash_%28Medium%29_-_20111124_05.26.31PM.html>"

                                                                                                              
                           Thnx GZ   witsendnj.blogspot.com

     





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