Six years ago Professor John Schellnhuber (who had recently been appointed as Chief Government Adviser on Climate and Related Issues by the German Chancellor) talked at the RSA Art and Ecology Conference (2006) about the challenges in modelling the interactions between different critical points in global environmental systems - gulf streams, sea ice, glaciers and snow on mountains,... Continue Reading →
Funding Natural Heritage Projects
Scottish Natural Heritage publishes a guide to various funding sources for natural heritage projects - included are schemes that support on the ground action as well as communication and education. This guide covers EU, Public Sector, Lottery as well as Trusts and Foundations and can be found here. Also worth checking out is the website... Continue Reading →
CultureLab: Bio-artists who tinker with tools of science
The New Scientist's CultureLab blog ran a stor, y Bio-artists who tinker with tools of science, in early August on artists working with "the tools of science." The article draws in particular on the work of SymbioticA. It doesn't talk about Critical Art Ensemble or Eduardo Kac, but it does acknowledge the multiple possible outcomes... Continue Reading →
Events at IASH
Tuesday, 7 August, 1.30 - 4 pm, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), 2 Hope Park Square, Edinburgh We are having two seminars next Tuesday by current IASH Postdoctoral Fellows on the research they are doing - if you are free and would like to come, you would be most welcome. The details... Continue Reading →
6 Scary Extreme Energy Sources
Following on from Bill McKibben's article, the following list/article is relevant: Light Tight Oil Ultra Deepwater Pre-Salt Oil Tar Sands Offshore Arctic Oil Shale Oil Nuclear Read on here.
2° Celsius = 565 gigatons but 2,795 gigatons = $27 trillion
I normally criticise environmentalists using financial numbers, but Bill McKibben's argument in August's Rolling Stone is based on really interesting numbers: 167 countries are signed up to the 2° target (keep the impact of climate change within this range). 565 gigatons is the amount of carbon we can release into the atmosphere (roughly speaking) before... Continue Reading →
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