Category Archives: academia

Divesting from fossil fuels – part of a low carbon culture for #Manchester

Posted on October 31, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

We need a low carbon culture (and we need you to help define it first). And part of a low carbon culture is going to be divesting from fossil fuel companies.  The University of Manchester, which hopes to have global … Continue reading →

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Professor Kevin Anderson on climate change, the Paris meeting etc (video interview)

Posted on October 30, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

We need a low carbon culture (and we need you to help define it first). And part of a low carbon culture is going to be paying attention to the science – the amount of carbon dioxide we have been … Continue reading →

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Upcoming “Policy Week” events – of trade deals and arsenic

Posted on October 24, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Both as part of University of Manchester’s* Policy Week Manchester Policy Week: The Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership: Cash Bonanza or Risky Deal? on Tuesday, 4 November 2014 from 19:00 to 21:00 & Manchester Policy Week: Poisoning the world’s poor: … Continue reading →

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Ocean acidification – interview with Professor Jason Hall-Spencer in #Manchester, 6th October

Posted on October 7, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

See also: ‘Jacuzzi vents’ model C02 future Wikipedia article on ocean acidification And in yesterday’s issue of the excellent “Daily Climate” news feed Past measurements may have missed massive ocean warming Fish failing to adapt to rising carbon dioxide levels … Continue reading →

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Upcoming: “Beyond the Fracking Polemic” Tues 7th October, University of #Manchester

Posted on September 30, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Not organised by MCFly.  And no need to book –  you just turn up.

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Book Review: The Politics of Airport Expansion in the United Kingdom: Hegemony, Policy and the Rhetoric of ‘sustainable Aviation’

Posted on September 21, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Manchester-based academic Dr Damian O’Doherty reviews Manchester University Press’s “The Politics of Airport Expansion in the United Kingdom” for Manchester Climate Monthly. In this study of airports and aviation Griggs and Howarth draw extensively from the corpus of work produced … Continue reading →

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Upcoming Event: “The Empty Promise of the Sharing Economy” #Manchester Weds 24 Sept

Posted on September 17, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Below is the full academic version. If I were a scurrilous tabloid hack, as opposed to a PhD student at the Sustainable Consumption Institute (1) I would say “Tree-huggers want to get us out of our greed heads, and have … Continue reading →

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Off-topic: “Corporate responses to #climate”, interview with #academics

Posted on June 19, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Two academics, one based in the UK and the other in Australia, have just had a rather excellent article called “Creative self-destruction: corporate responses to climate change as political myths” published in the journal Environmental Politics.  Here’s an interview with … Continue reading →

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Kevin Anderson, #Manchester #climate prof – “US proposed emission cuts too little too late”

Posted on June 6, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

And also Dr Maria Sharmina!!  Cut & pasted from here. An inconvenient truth – US proposed emission cuts too little too late June 2014  A response to the US announcement that the carbon emissions from its power sector will reduce by 30% … Continue reading →

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Off-topic fiction; “The Defiant Ones”, or “Looting the Ivory Tower…” #academics #activism #Manchester

Posted on June 1, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

published recently in Peace News. The Defiant Ones “Run!!” The activist yanked on the plasti-cuffs tying him to the academic. “Run THIS way NOW.” They fled. They fled the tear-gas and the screaming and the thud thud thud overhead. They … Continue reading →

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