This posts pulls together a couple of recent videos featuring Kevin Anderson. First up is an interview by Manchester Climate Monthly following the December 2013 Radical Emissions Reduction Conference in the UK. Kevin answers questions on the purpose of the conference, on scientists being "political", and on civil disobedience and shale gas.
Manchester Climate Monthly also pulled out these 2 clips – Kevin Anderson on scientists who get political, Kevin Anderson on shale gas and disobedience.
Below is Kevin’s presentation from the conference.
Kevin Anderson – The emissions case for a radical plan from tyndallcentre on Vimeo.
Kevin Anderson is professor of energy and climate change in the School of Mechanical, Aeronautical and Civil Engineering at the University of Manchester. He was previously 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. Kevin now leads Tyndall Manchester’s energy and climate change research programme and is deputy director of the Tyndall Centre. He is research active with recent publications in Royal Society journals, Nature and Energy Policy, and engages widely across all tiers of government.
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Tags: climate change, Emissions, Energy Policy, Politics, science
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