more CLIMATE Events @ ESRC Festival of Social Science 2014 across the UK

How can marketing become a force for sustainability?
PLYMOUTH
6 November 2014, 19.00-20.00
Dr Hurth is an expert in sustainable marketing and will be reporting on her work for FRIENDS OF THE EARTH on 'Reforming Marketing for Sustainability'
www.esrc.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/festival/festival-events/general-public/marketing-sustainability.aspx

Making connections: the sustainable supply chain
PLYMOUTH
6 November 2014, 18.00-19.00
This session will provide information about how global supply chains operate and how the consumer decisions we make are inextricably connected with the lives of others all over the globe. We will showcase Rapanui, an ethical clothing company
www.esrc.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/festival/festival-events/general-public/making-connections.aspx

Resolving conflict between consumerism and sustainable development
MANCHESTER
7 November 2014, 9.30-16.30
There is widespread acceptance that growing consumption is unsustainable given limited resources and the environmental consequences of waste production. (sounds like the Club of Rome line from the 1970s which has been debunked)
www.esrc.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/festival/festival-events/specific-interest/resolving-conflict-between-consumerism-sustainable-development.aspx

OOPS I just noticed I missed listing The Grantham Gravity Fields Festival 24-28th September
eg1 Engineering the Climate Panel Discussion @St Wulfram's Church
- Dr Hugh Hunt, Dr Matthew Watson discuss the implications for climate engineering theories and experimentation. It is a drastic solution with massive implications for the planet. Are even the theories and experiments too dangerous to contemplate and allow?
Wed 24 Sep 2:45pm

eg. 2 Reporting the Weather
Liz Howell and Nina Ridge @St Wulfram's Church
BBC Head of Weather Liz Howell and colleague BBC TV weather presenter Nina Ridge discuss how reporting the weather on TV has become an ever more challenging business. Free Event.
Duration: 45 mins Wed 24 Sep 5:15pm

eg3 SCIENCE FUTURES Debate @St Wulfram's Church
Cutting edge science debate with UK’s top scientists. DNA tests by iphone, melting Antarctic ice sheets and their message for climate change, what next at CERN and artificial intelligence - all are hot topics featuring in a stellar Gravity Fields Festival Science Futures debate chaired by Siân Ede, former Arts Director of the Gulbenkian Foundation.
Wed 24 Sep 7:45pm

eg4 Women in Science Panel Discussion @St Wulfram's Church
- Free unticketed event - BBC Radio Lincolnshire’s Nicola Gilroy hosts a live edition of her lunch bunch focussing on the role of women in science with leading UK women scientists with Professor Valerie Gibson (Physicist), Sasha Norris (zoologist and environmentalist) and Liz Beckmann, past-President of the British Institute of Radiology.
Thu 25 Sep 11:45am

BTW you know the kid whose parents took him from Southampton hospital to Prague ? well there was a lecture on Proton treament
Treating and Seeing Cancer with Protons
Professor Nigel M Allinson, ScD, MBE
Angel & Royal Hotel, Grantham
- Nigel Allinson is a distinguished professor of image engineering at the University of Lincoln. He is at the forefront of a process exploring new ways to treat cancer – the PRaVDA international research project. An exhibition stand relating to this talk is on display at the George Centre.
Duration: 1 hour Sat 27 Sep 10:30am

Tosser Cox also has a show today

The festival continues until the Sunday 28th but theres no more climate

BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival: returns to @sage_gateshead 31 Oct-2 Nov
SCHEDULE NOW OUT
Booking opens on Monday 6th October. MOSTLY FREE TIX
MY PICK OF CLIMATE EVENTS
1. Antarctica @Hall Two
Saturday 1st 10.30am - 11.30am
"A hundred years ago, Ernest Shackleton set out on his Trans-Antarctic Expedition which ended when his ship Endurance became trapped in pack ice. The lure of this polar region remains strong both in our imaginations and for explorers, whether they see it as an untapped source of resources or a pristine landscape which we need to preserve. Rana Mitter is joined by:
- Writer Meredith Hooper, who has visited Antarctica under the auspices of three governments, Australia, United Kingdom and United States of America.
ALARMIST : see book The Ferocious Summer: Adelie Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica (there are 2 US customer reviews from friends, ridiculed by Andrew Bolt)
- Polar explorer Ben Saunders, who led the longest human powered polar exploration in history from Antarctica to South Pole and back, retracing Captain Scott’s Terra Nova expedition.
ALARMIST : actually on a 2008 mission to prove ice melting faster than ever , he had to be rescued cos of too much ice !
- Architect Hugh Broughton has designed research stations for Spain, Korea and the UK in Antarctica.
Alarmist ? maybe not
- Professor Jonathan Bamber teaches at the Bristol Glaciology Centre.
Alarmist ? probably not much. The Alarmists didn't report him when he said about ice meting “We found that the threshold is about double what was previously published,”

A token event for non-leftwingers : Right Thinking People - A History of Conservative Thought
Sunday 2nd November, 2014. 3.45pm - 4.45pm
not that I or many BHers are interested in Conservative politics

well that's The R3FTF is not as good as previous years (so I won't be there)

MY PICK OF non- CLIMATE EVENTS
The Free Thinking Lecture
Friday 31st October, 2014. 7.15pm - 8.30pm
Karen Armstrong, one of the world’s leading thinkers about religion, gives the Free Thinking Lecture, arguing that, in the current global situation, a recognition of how little we know is the only way to peace.
A former Roman Catholic nun
* Beards : New Generation Thinker: Alun Withey
Saturday 1st November, 2014. 7.10pm - 7.30pm
* Animals: Watching Us Watching Them Watching Each Other
Sunday 2nd November, 2014. 2.15pm - 3.15pm
* Tom Charlton : The History Of Press Censorship
Sunday 2nd November, 2014. 4.50pm - 5.10pm

Thursday, 23 October 2014 from 18:00 to 22:00 SOLD OUT
Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss live at Conway Hall LONDON, to discuss their recent documentary and the state of science and reason in modern times. - The Skeptic Magazine
The Unbelievers documentary follows Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss as they speak publicly around the world. It includes interviews with Stephen Hawking, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Sam Harris, Cameron Diaz, Woody Allen and many others.
- bet they don't dare challenge Green Religion ..some one should ask them to in the questioning

Thursday, 23 October 2014
17:30 to 19:15
@Exeter U
Professor Mike Hulme will argue that a cultural analysis of climate and its changes is needed as much as a scientific one.

Has the story of climate change become too univocal?
There is an orthodoxy – even a hegemony – which does not do justice to the complexities of what is happening to climates around the world, nor how such changes are understood.

h/t Repeal the Act! Campaign to Repeal the Climate Change Act