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Response to the IPCC 1.5°C Special Report

By Kevin Anderson Filed Under: All posts, Energy and Environment, Science and Engineering Posted: October 8, 2018

The University of Manchester’s Professor Kevin Anderson responds to today’s report from the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC report meticulously lays out how the serious climate impacts of 1.5°C of warming are still far less destructive than those for 2°C. Sadly, the IPCC then fails, again, to address the profound implications of reducing […]

Is the IPCC overly optimistic on our climate?

By Kevin Anderson Filed Under: All posts Posted: October 16, 2015

Professor Kevin Anderson, Deputy Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, will be attending the Climate Change Conference in Paris this December. He has a stark warning about the future of our climate. In July 2015 scientists attended a major climate conference as a prelude to the political negotiations in Paris in December. After […]

Evidence ignored amid Lords committee’s bullishness on fracking

By John Broderick Filed Under: Featured, Science and Technology Posted: May 12, 2014

Last week a Lords Select Committee report backed “all out” development of a UK shale gas industry, pointing to compatibility with UK climate change commitments. But this conclusion flies in the face of a wealth of evidence to the contrary, writes Dr John Broderick. The message from last week’s House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee […]

Response to the IPCC 1.5°C Special Report

Is the IPCC overly optimistic on our climate?

Evidence ignored amid Lords committee’s bullishness on fracking

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