Current interesting listening includes:
Peter Day on the World Service talks to investment manager Jeremy Grantham on "managing progress in a world of finite resources". This is a fascinating interview touching on GDP and finite resources including shale gas. Sounds dull but it really isn't. Peter Day is alarmed by the message but thinks it might just be right. It is basically what Schumacher was saying back in 1974.
Jeremy Grantham supports the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economic, and the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College.
Sir Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society, gives a lecture on Making Science Work at the University of Melbourne, exploring the interface between science and policy. A long high-brow but engaging lecture about research. Sounds really dull but skip the first 45 minutes to topic 2 about giving high quality policy advice, examples of the mix up of science and politics in Britain includes climate change and Lord Lawson.
Peter Day on the World Service talks to investment manager Jeremy Grantham on "managing progress in a world of finite resources". This is a fascinating interview touching on GDP and finite resources including shale gas. Sounds dull but it really isn't. Peter Day is alarmed by the message but thinks it might just be right. It is basically what Schumacher was saying back in 1974.
Jeremy Grantham supports the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economic, and the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College.
Sir Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society, gives a lecture on Making Science Work at the University of Melbourne, exploring the interface between science and policy. A long high-brow but engaging lecture about research. Sounds really dull but skip the first 45 minutes to topic 2 about giving high quality policy advice, examples of the mix up of science and politics in Britain includes climate change and Lord Lawson.
Tuesday 19/2/13. Sure enough the GWPF hit back via an article by Andrew Montford in the Spectator. Sir Paul Nurse, having said that science and politics should not be mixed up and that science should inform policy, is accused by Montford of being left wing - and in so doing does just that - he mixes politics with the science. Sir Paul's example of mixing the two was Lord Lawson who is definitely a politician not a scientist - by his own admission. Each step of this mud slinging is carefully stoked on the GWPF web site. Now the GWPF is engaged in public slanging matches over energy policy and climate change with Imperial College, the London School of Economics and the Royal Society (where next?), rather than submitting their pamphlets to peer review and engaging in a credible scientific debate. I am with Sir Paul - keep the politics out of the science and put the science into the (energy) policies. What does our Member of Parliament think?
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