One of many great things about living in Exeter is being able to go to lectures at the University’s Global Systems Institute.
Exeter University is a world-leading centre in climate change research, with more IPCC authors than any other city in the world. Its Global Systems Institute brings these academics together with policy-makers, NGOs, citizens and others to tackle shared problems. They host regular lectures with interesting speakers – and local residents are welcome to attend. I’ve been to several very informative and truly thought-provoking talks (including one by Andreas Malm and Wim Carton on the crazy concept of ‘climate overshoot’, which I wrote about here).
This week it was the turn of distinguished scientist Michael Mann. Dr Mann is Professor of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania (and has several other appointments), a leading IPCC author, winner of many awards and plaudits, and one of the creators of the hockey stick graph.
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