You’ve three, count ’em 3, opportunities to ask real live climate scientists your questions in the coming weeks.

The ubiquitous and somewhat dishy (so the wife of one of the editors says) Professor Kevin Anderson, deputy director of the Tyndall Centre is available to answer your queries twice. On Tuesday 6th March, from 5pm he’s ‘Going Beyond Dangerous Climate Change: Exploring the void between rhetoric and reality in reducing carbon emissions’ Room 3, University of Manchester Students’ Union, Oxford Road. On Tuesday 13th from 7pm he’s part of a panel discussion organised by Friends of the Earth, at the Greenfish Resource Centre, Oldham St, City Centre (see MCFly #3 calendar on page 8 for details).

Earlier on Tuesday 13th, from 5 to 6pm, Maria Sharmina, also of the Tyndall, gives a talk with Q and A on ‘Emissions and Enery Scenarios – A Focus on the UK’ Rm 4, University of Manchester Students’ Union, Oxford Rd. All these events are free, and will be blogged by MCFly writers. After attending one or more of them, please ponder the Sven Lindqvist quote from the beginning of his book ‘Exterminate All the Brutes’:

 “You already know enough. So do I. It is not knowledge we lack. What is missing is the courage to understand what we know and to draw conclusions.”

Marc Hudson
Mcmonthly@gmail.com