Latest Events and Conferences

 A Tyndall Centre public discussion of the issues raised by the ‘Climategate’ emails for the science and climate change community.

The event will be chaired by Professor John Shepherd FRS CBE (University of Southampton and National Oceanography Centre) with a panel of leading contributors

Professor Alan Thorpe (Chief Executive, Natural Environment Research Council)
Professor Mike Hulme (University of East Anglia and author of 'Why We Disagree About Climate Change')
Fred Pearce (Writer and author of the 'Climate Files: The Battle for the Truth About Global Warming')
Dr Lorraine Whitmarsh (Lecturer in Environmental Psychology, University of Cardiff)

Nightingale Building, Highfield Campus, University of Southampton

 Adapting to Climate Change

Witnesses

1. Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury, Chairman, and Dr Paul Leinster CBE, Chief Executive, Environment Agency


2. Professor Neil Adger, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia (to watch Neil and Tim's evidence play media browser and hour after the beginning of the clip)

Link to the clip

Visit the Committee's homepage.

Professor Diana Liverman

Professor Yadvinder Malhi

Mark Lynas

James Painter

Chaired by Dr Heike Schroeder.

The Tyndall Centre and Oxford University are hosting a joint side-event during the high-level policy segment of Copenhagen COP15 on Thursday 17th December 2009 at 16:30—18:00, Halfdan Rasmussen room

Despite 17 years of political negotiations since the Rio Earth Summit, global greenhouse gas emissions have continued to rise, which presents the global community with a stark challenge: Either instigate an immediate and radical reversal in existing emission trends or accept global temperature rises well beyond 4°C.

This scientific conference will for the first time (1) assess the consequences of a change in global temperature above 4°C for a range of systems and sectors and (2) explore the options that are open for avoiding climate changes of this magnitude.

This is an open call for participants and for abstracts for presentations and posters under the themes of: i) Agriculture, Water and Food Security ii) Vulnerable People and Places iii) Ecosystems and ecosystem services iv) Earth system feedbacks and thresholds v) Emissions reductions.

More info: http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/4degrees/

This year's Forum will bring together in Newcastle climate change stakeholders from the North-East of England with Tyndall Centre Researchers. The Forum is on the 1st November and is part of the 3 day annual Tyndall Assembly.

Speakers include: Professor Jim Hall, University of Newcastle and Tyndall Centre; Adrian Hilton, Regional Climate Change Coordinator for the North East; Peter Kerr, Environment Agency; Dr Lorraine Whitmarsh, University of East Anglia and Tyndall. A climate change question time panel will consist of: Professor Diana Liverman, Oxford University; UK Climate Impacts Programme, Oxford University and DEFRA; Charlie Henderson, Carbon Neutral Newcastle; Professor Paul Younger, University of Newcastle. The Forum finishes with a reception and a poster show by Tyndall PhD researchers. Professor Mike Hulme, Director of the Tyndall Centre, is the closing speaker.

Due to demand, available places are already very limited.

Speaker: Brian O'Neill, (IIASA).

This is an open invite to a seminar this Friday discussing recent work on CO2 emissions which suggests that recent trands in China may well displace all efforts underway through the Kyoto agreement. It is intended to be accessible to all and everyone is very welcome.

» Speaker: Professor Robert Nicholls and Professor Andrew Watkinson.

» Contact: Vanessa McGregor for more information.

A three-dimensional hands-on interactive exhibition at Norwich Cathedral to be launched at the BA Festival of Science 2006, funded by Defra. The exhibition takes the form of a journey through time and visitors follow a trail narrated by a lively inquisitive cartoon character, Sally. She is a 10 year old from Cromer, Norfolk, who asks her granddad 'what's climate change got to do with me?'