some things coming up in 2016

London : Thursday, January 14
Greenhouse gases and bioenergy (UEA London Lectures)
FREE ..need to book in advance ..and info
Thursday, January 14, 7PM-9 PM (Drinks reception 6pm)
Deloitte, 2 New Street Square, LONDON EC4A 3BZ
with Prof David Richardson, Vice-Chancellor

It's not listed as live-streamed nor are any more of the London lectures about climate,
but there is a video of the old lecture : Climate change and international trade
Prof Dabo Guan's inaugural lecture took place on Tuesday 3 November

Coming up at UEA in Norwich : a series of 3 lectures on exploring the precautionary principle
Tuesday 2 February 2016, 6:30pm : - Dr Phil Hutchinson
next 17th Feb & 1st March

Tuesday 1 March 2016, 6:30pm
The power of frustration: pioneering clean hydrogen energy - Prof Gregory Wildgoose

Monday, March 14, 2016 7:00 PM
@Reading University FREE
- Great Debate - Can renewables meet our electricity needs?
part of British Science Week 2016
The event will consist of four short talks by experts in the field followed by an opportunity for the audience to ask questions of a panel formed by the speakers and to offer their own views.
1. Wind Power - Professor Fergal Brennan, Director of Energy, Cranfield University,
2. Solar Power - Professor Humayun Mughal, CEO, Silicon CPV Plc (MONEYconnection !)
3. Energy Storage - Andrew Haslett, Chief Engineer, Energy Technologies Institute
4. Grid Changes - Dr Phil Coker, Lecturer in Renewable Energy, University of Reading

So no time to mention the biggest suppliers of renewable power ? : nuclear, biofuels, hydro
..anyone would think "It's all about Green Propaganda, not science"

PRIOR BOOKING IS REQUIRED FOR THIS EVENT That page has a lot of details

O/T but also at Reading and bound to be good
11 May 2016 20:00
Free Steven Pinker lecture
" 'The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's guide to Writing in the 21st Century'.
He argues that we need to rethink usage advice. Rather than moaning about the decline of the language, carping over pet peeves, or recycling spurious edicts from the rulebooks of a century ago, we can apply insights from the sciences of language and mind to the challenge of crafting clear, coherent, and stylish prose."

@Reading U Wednesday 23 March 7.30pm at Henley Business School, Whiteknights campus.
Lecture: Wild life in a warmer world: Where are we and where are we going?
by Professor Camille Parmesan of Plymouth University
Admission is free but places are limited. must reserve

Professor Camille Parmesan was an official contributor to the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the IPCC in 2007 for her groundbreaking work measuring the impact of man-made climate change on animal and plant life.

Look what happened to a butterfly ecologist named Camille Parmesan when she published a paper on “ Climate and Species Range” that blamed climate change for threatening the Edith checkerspot butterfly with extinction in California by driving its range northward. The paper was cited more than 500 times, she was invited to speak at the White House and she was asked to contribute to the IPCC’s third assessment report.

Unfortunately, a distinguished ecologist called Jim Steele found fault with her conclusion: there had been more local extinctions in the southern part of the butterfly’s range due to urban development than in the north, so only the statistical averages moved north, not the butterflies. There was no correlated local change in temperature anyway, and the butterflies have since recovered throughout their range. When Steele asked Parmesan for her data, she refused. Parmesan’s paper continues to be cited as evidence of climate change. Steele meanwhile is derided as a “denier”. No wonder a highly sceptical ecologist I know is very reluctant to break cover.