Latest stories from the Tyndall Centre

Government committee takes evidence on carbon budgets from Tyndall Director - 

As seen on Parliament TV

» Further information: http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=4388

Professor Adger talks about his new book 'Adapting to climate change' - 

Watch the interview, from Oslo, on YouTube

» Further information: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHteDq6GgPo

Either survive or thrive argues new book - 

The costs of adaptation will force governments to redefine what they mean by progress, argues Professor Adger’s 'Adapting to Climate Change', published this week by Cambridge University Press.


Adapting to Climate Change is the latest science of how the risks of climate change will impact water availability, biodiversity, flooding, land inundation and health, and how those impacts might be handled by society. The book comes in the same week that the UK’s Environment Agency called for a doubling of funding to protect the UK from flood damage resulting from future climate change.


» Read more: http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/media/press_releases/tyndallpress20june09.pdf
» Further information: www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521764858

Government launches new UK climate projections - 

These are the most detailed UK projections to date and include a probabilistic component

» Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8106104.stm
» Further information: http://ukclimateprojections.defra.gov.uk

Climate change in a myopic world - 

Our latest Briefing Note is an opinion piece from Professor Kevin Anderson

» Read more: http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/publications/briefing_notes/bn36.pdf

ADAM policy conference and final report - 

The EU-funded ADAM project (Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies) last week delivered its key findings in Brussels


The final report highlights the key findings of the research. The final section summarizes the findings of two internal evaluations of the researchers' learning experiences within the project



The final report is available below and Cambridge University Press will be publishing a series of four edited books that will discuss in more detail the ADAM project findings
» Further information: http://adamproject.info/index.php/Download-document/454-Adam-Final-Report-May-2009.html

Journalists portray developing countries as helpless victims of climate change - 

A new paper by Hugh Doulton and Katrina Brown at UEA analyses how the media represent climate change and international development


The analysis of UK 'quality press' finds that, for most part, newspapers promulgate views of developing countries as hapless victims of climate change which will inevitably be a catastrophe for development. 'Crisis' discourses dominated coverage in the Guardian and Independent. Until 2006-7 storylines that saw opportunities for poor countries with climate change were visible but these are now replaced. Overall, very few news articles actually cover climate change as an international development issue



Doulton, H., and Brown, K., 2009 'Ten years to prevent catastrophe'? Discourses of climate change and international development in the UK press' Global Environmental Change 19, pp. 191-202 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2008.10.004

Happy birthday climate change science - 

150 years ago on 18 May 1859, John Tyndall's experiments showed the existence of greenhouse gases and therefore 'proved' a greenhouse effect.


The New Scientist and Prof Mike Hulme have marked this important birthday
» Read more: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/122365003/PDFSTART
» Further information: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227081.500-the-man-who-discovered-greenhouse-gases.html?full=true

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