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SUMMARY:Can meaningful hope spring from revealing the depth of our climate
  failure? - Prof Kevin Anderson (University of Manchester\, Uppsala Univer
 sity)
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CONTACT:Trinity College Science Society
DESCRIPTION:Come to the Winstanley Lecture Hall on 23rd January at 6 pm to
  hear from Prof Kevin Anderson\, Professor of Energy and Climate Change at
  Universities of Manchester and Uppsala\, and the former Director of the T
 yndall Centre for Climate Change Research.\n\nProfessor Anderson engages w
 idely across all tiers of EU\, UK\, and Swedish governments on issues rang
 ing from shale gas\, aviation and shipping to the role of integrated asses
 sment models in climate science\, carbon budgets and ‘negative emission 
 technologies’. His analysis previously contributed to the framing of the
  UK’s Climate Change Act and the development of national carbon budgets.
 \n\nTo reach Winstanley Lecture Hall\, enter the door opposite to the Grea
 t Gate\, go up the stairs to your right\, and take the second left turn. Y
 ou will find our banner near the entrance.\n\n"Peel away the layers of dan
 gerously naïve hope and unfounded optimism and the\nmitigation challenge 
 posed by the Paris Agreement now demands the rapid and\nprofound re-shapin
 g of contemporary society. Whilst the models dominating the\nmitigation ag
 enda employ evermore exotic and speculative technologies to remain\n‘pol
 itically palatable’\, the arithmetic of emissions increasingly embeds eq
 uity at the\nheart of any mathematically cogent strategy. Dress it up howe
 ver we may like\, the\nParisian mitigation agenda is ultimately a rationin
 g issue. Until we are prepared to\nacknowledge this\, we will continue our
  reckless pathway towards a 3-5°C future.\nAgainst such a depressing back
 drop\, do the rapid emergence of new and vociferous\nconstituencies and th
 e heightened profile of climate change suggest early cracks and\nthe prosp
 ect of new light?"
LOCATION:Winstanley Lecture Hall\, Trinity College
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