Diary dates
Aug 14, 2013
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Readers in the South-West of England will not want to miss the opportunity to hear prominent Tory environmentalist Oliver Letwin and a bunch of other greens discussing climate change. Details here.

14 September 2013 

Weymouth and Portland Transition Towns are organsing a half-day seminar on Climate Change with Oliver Letwin (MP for West Dorset & Cabinet Member), John Tomblin (Weymouth and Portland Transition Towns) and Pete West (Renewable Energy Development Officer, Dorset County Council) making presentations.

In unrelated news, Conservative Party membership may have fallen to as low as 60,000.

At the start of October, The Royal Society is going to hold a two day meeting to examine the new IPCC report. The list of speakers and session chairs is positively stellar (or, in more familiar parlance, "the usual suspects"). Details here.

2-3 October 2013

The IPCC 5th Assessment Report Working Group 1 (Science) Summary for Policy for Makers is due to be approved on 23-26 September of this year.  In the following week a number of associated activities are being planned in the UK. This meeting will provide a forum for exploration of the current understanding of some important aspects of climate science, leading on to discussion of future directions for the science.

And tonight on Radio 4, Evan Davis will be discussing greenery with a bunch of greens and a lone critic of greenery in the shape of Matthew Sinclair. Details here.

Evan Davis explores whether the temperature of the green movement is hotting up as much as global warming. In a late night discussion he finds out why Mark Lynas went from trashing GM crops in the 90s to powerful advocate of both GM and nuclear power a decade later. And how such treachery plays out in the Green Party, and with its one MP, Caroline Lucas. His other guests Solitaire Townsend, Matthew Sinclair and Mario Petrucci discuss the dangers of allying green issues with the left; whether environmentalism should abandon the ideological for the practical, and whether it's really seeking to save our souls, or the planet.

If anyone fancies writing a report on any of these, drop me a line.

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