Climate Change: Going Beyond Dangerous - a frank presentation by Professor Kevin Anderson

Listen to this 57 minute webinar (voice presentation with slideshow) by Professor Kevin Anderson, on Climate Change: Going Beyond Dangerous. Professor Anderson is Deputy Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and holds a chair in Energy and Climate Change at Manchester University, and is an advisor to the British Government on climate change (see Wikipedia). He knows what he is talking about.

Kevin Anderson explains in simple language what we are facing in our climate future - a four degree world perhaps as soon as 2060 and a 6 to 8 degree world by the end of the century. He is brutally honest and straight forward in his assessments of where we are at with mitigation and the options open for humanity. Climate negotiations have dithered since 1992, and have left no easy options for us. The longer we delay, the more difficult it will be to respond to climate change.

It is only through knowing the dire extent of the situation that we can take the actions necessary to possibly avoid the worst climate impacts. I know this is a depressing subject. Try to put your thinking caps on while enjoying christmas dinner amoung friends and family.

Maybe we'll end up following the timeline in the discussion paper by Jorgen Randers and Paul Gilding: Time to prepare for The One Degree War. Read the PDF