Professor Kevin Anderson From iniquity to integrity … there’s no hiding from carbon budgets

Talk Abstract:
As climate change increasingly exacerbates extreme weather events around the globe, so government leaders are increasingly using the language of a “climate emergency”. But look beyond the fine words, and it is quickly evident that behind the relatively recent framing of ‘net zero’, many governments, companies and institutions are planning for little more than incremental adjustments to business-as-usual. But “nature will not be fooled” by empty rhetoric, subterfuge and unsubstantiated optimism - and nor should we. The challenges we face in delivering on our Paris climate commitments beg fundamental questions of almost every facet of modern society. This presentation will seek to lay bare the sheer scale, scope and urgency of emission cuts now required to meet our Paris climate commitments. It will conclude by offering an outline of the key characteristics delivering on such commitments needs to entail. Please note, for those with a more sensitive disposition, this is very much a “red pill” presentation.
Short Bio:
Kevin is professor of Energy and Climate Change at the University of Manchester and visiting professor at the Universities of Uppsala (Sweden) and Bergen (Norway). Formerly he held the position of Zennström professor (in Uppsala) and was director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research (UK). Kevin engages widely with governments, industry and civil society, and remains research active with publications in Climate policy, Nature and Science. He has a decade’s industrial experience in the petrochemical industry, is a chartered engineer and fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
Twitter: @KevinClimate

[@radman1136]

When I began following you Kevin you were still pulling your punches. Now you've become unapologetic about speaking the truth. That's enough. There is true nobility in that. If you're ever in need of a Sancho Panza I would be honored.

[@marinangeli3250]

Six years ago I was compelled to write the following poem. It was inspired by the utter lack of public attention on the very dire topic of anthropogenic climate change... and pointed at the predator class who intentionally keep the masses distracted from the details and depth of our dilemma. That was six years we did not have to waste... how much more time will be wasted before we act? It is already too late to return to the world we knew just a decade ago. If we hope to have a survivable future, at all, the whole of humanity must come together, immediately and willingly, to change the paradigm. Standing Alone Standing alone, on the shores of iniquity I prepare for the wave… The wave of deceit The wave of greed The wave of immorality The wave of dishonor Standing alone, on the shores of despair I wave goodbye… Goodbye to truth Goodbye to honor Goodbye to nature Goodbye to future Standing alone, on the shores of integrity I salute the brave hearts… Hearts that cherish Hearts that commit Hearts that compel Hearts that travail Standing alone, on the shores of infinity I cling to the Spirit… The Spirit of Love The Spirit of Life The Spirit of Wisdom The Spirit… Laura Marinangeli, June, 2017

[@tomhall7633]

Yeah...true, sad, and bittersweet. Take care of yourself.

[@marinangeli3250]

@@tomhall7633 Thank you, Tom, I shall.

[@marinangeli3250]

@@tomhall7633 By the way, that brief reply was my 4th attempt at replying to you. I included a link in my first post, a link with spaces in my second, no link at all in the third, and none of them posted. I'm giving it one last try... On my YT channel, in the right hand corner of my banner, is a link to The Book Of Tears... Poems. Not all of them reflect my melancholy regarding the state of our planet. The last poem is dedicated to Nick, Bijou and the entire Zentnerd community. :)

[@tomhall7633]

@@marinangeli3250 I've been a bad boy on KZbin. Only about 20% of my comments post and I have no idea how many replies have never made the cut. I will check out your YT channel. Thanks

[@marinangeli3250]

@@tomhall7633 I know how you feel... they've been shadow banning me for around 5 years. I just assumed my posts weren't getting through because of a problem at my end. Thanks for being an environmentally aware/concerned citizen :)

[@rapauli]

Anderson combines the latest climate science with clear moral view. Important words. Thank you for posting

[@kayakMike1000]

Not using carbon based fuels is immoral.

[@grahamt5924]

It's a whole lot of waffle.

[@michaelb1587]

not interested in his MORAL views, stick to facts

[@martiansoon9092]

Don't forget that most politicians sits on that top 1% or at least top 10% income group. This means they have no intentions to lessen their own emissions.

[@AudioPervert1]

Folks like Kevin Anderson and William Rees make it sufficiently clear, this stupid faith in technology to solve all our problems, is going to be a disaster. Green colored energy will continue destroying the planet, in one way or another. The folks making deals at the annual COPS are perhaps the biggest enemies of the living planet and future generations. This techno-optimism is done with. The age of exuberance is over!

[@tomhall7633]

One month, five comments. The most momentous chapter in the human story doesn't seem able to hold the public's attention. Not looking good my friends.

[@EnvironmentalCoffeehouse]

I just saw it. I'm going to share it onto our platform on Facebook at least. I think I'll write to Kevin and see if he'd like to come on to be a guest on our channel!

[@tomhall7633]

@@EnvironmentalCoffeehouse I'm so glad you are on the ball girl! Just when I was about to take another drink.

[@EnvironmentalCoffeehouse]

@@tomhall7633 well, this is really good. I'm looking for his email address now. Sometimes I wish I had an assistant.🥴

[@marinangeli3250]

Bingo... :(

[@christinearmington]

@@EnvironmentalCoffeehouse. Don’t we all

[@martiansoon9092]

Well, arguing about 1,5C is pretty pointless. It is pretty much lost cause already. We have to discuss more about staying under 2C and avoiding 3C or over. Without rapid emission cuts (that are nowhere to be seen) we are going well above 3C temperature rise and that is too high change rate for multitude of species. We will lose nature and in the same time we will be losing food crop that we rely on.

[@A3Kr0n]

This guy always leaves in me stitches. It's a coping mechanism.

[@cameronwhitford3384]

1.4K… should be 1.4 mil… insane, terrifying stuff

[@martiansoon9092]

Remember also that most of the pledges are failing already...

[@martiansoon9092]

Add military emissions and all the rest that are not included and you'll end up adding emissions...

[@paulsholar9356]

Why hasn't Australia already begun to cover its central 75% of territory with solar farms?

[@cupofjoe.88]

Why are banks that talk about climate change still issuing loans for beachside property that's "doomed" under sea level rise models? Really makes you think.

[@havenmist2216]

Ask yourself, how many people would ask this person to come in and speak, praise him and keep him in a job, if his message was NOT that the world is going to burn?

[@harveytheparaglidingchaser7039]

Well presented, excellent content, easy to understand. The problem is at least clearly framed. That's a good starting point

[@marklevine718]

this is really important and impactful. If you have a written version of this or a way to share the slides or PowerPoint so that we can share this with others in our own classes (for those of us who teach) it would be great if those could be public

[@timtam2126]

Try doing screen grabs, take pictures ofscreen

[@martiansoon9092]

In current drying climate likelihood that tree that is planted today will survive to 2070 is not that high. It'll burn or it is clearcutted for industrial uses. Also in overall picture forest floor and forest are becoming a carbon source, not a sink that they were before. So you cannot calculate ANY CO2 capture on planting trees today.

[@daviribeiro8846]

Higg, gere is Aba Marua fron Brasil, in Rio , at Teresopolus

[@daviribeiro8846]

We are ranking foram degrees

[@Nhoj737]

No ‘BAU’? ‘Most’ ‘economic thinking’ is ‘short run’ and ‘redundant’? ‘It’ ignores the ‘supply side’? ‘Growth’ {and ‘civilisation’} depends upon ‘cheap’ F.F. - those so called ‘halcyon days’ are ‘over’. ? “The crisis now unfolding, however, is entirely different to the 1970s in one crucial respect… The 1970s crisis was largely artificial. When all is said and done, the oil shock was nothing more than the emerging OPEC cartel asserting its newfound leverage following the peak of continental US oil production. There was no shortage of oil any more than the three-day-week had been caused by coal shortages. What they did, perhaps, give us a glimpse of was what might happen in the event that our economies depleted our fossil fuel reserves before we had found a more versatile and energy-dense alternative. . . . That system has been on the life-support of quantitative easing and near zero interest rates ever since. Indeed, so perilous a state has the system been in since 2008, it was essential that the people who claim to be our leaders avoid doing anything so foolish as to lockdown the economy or launch an undeclared economic war on one of the world’s biggest commodity exporters . . . And this is why the crisis we are beginning to experience will make the 1970s look like a golden age of peace and tranquility. . . . The sad reality though, is that our leaders - at least within the western empire - have bought into a vision of the future which cannot work without some new and yet-to-be-discovered high-density energy source (which rules out all of the so-called green technologies whose main purpose is to concentrate relatively weak and diffuse energy sources). . . . Even as we struggle to reimagine the 1970s in an attempt to understand the current situation, the only people on Earth today who can even begin to imagine the economic and social horrors that await western populations are the survivors of the 1980s famine in Ethiopia, the hyperinflation in 1990s Zimbabwe, or, ironically, the Russians who survived the collapse of the Soviet Union.” ? consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2022/07/01/bigger-than-you-can-imagine/ facebook.com/cosheep It's a 'race'? Between an increase in CO2 leading to a 'mass extinction' {“ . . . it is these ocean state changes that are 1:02:28 correlated with the great disasters of the past impact can cause extinction but 1:02:35 it did so in our past only wants[once] that we can tell whereas this has happened over 1:02:40 and over and over again we have fifteen evidences times of mass extinction in the past 500 million years 1:02:48 so the implications for the implications the implications of the carbon dioxide is really dangerous if you heat your 1:02:55 planet sufficiently to cause your Arctic to melt if you cause the temperature 1:03:01 gradient between your tropics and your Arctic to be reduced you risk going back 1:03:07 to a state that produces these hydrogen sulfide pulses . . . “ kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5zSYWZ4n92pbZI }, and a collapse in civilisation brought about by the lack of fossil fuels which will lead to the collapse of CO2 production?

[@daviribeiro8846]

Thais it 2 degrees

[@daviribeiro8846]

I WOULD luje tô know-how hoje I you domingo wuth The suckunf od CI2 abd sublingual if CH4. Here at Brasul, we are studing tais kind of métodos, tô suco CO2 and CH4, and transform it in eletricity

[@timfallon8226]

It is really important to remember that no one ever died from climate prior to the industrial revolution. Bad mankind, naughty mankind.

[@daviribeiro8846]

El Nino is going tô put an amount if latent and sensível heat enxuga tô pur The aversões global temperatura negra by 1.4, 1.5 . ..

[@daviribeiro8846]

I think that The gial if 1.5 , US amost você, is going tô be dufficult ti reais it, because od The El Nino, ....abe algo because if CH4 in The permafrist squishing

[@bradleywinter2803]

Plant trees it's the one thing everyone can do☺️

[@simontmitchell]

Hockey stick hokey schick.

[@michaelb1587]

This guy must be the most boring activist ever!

[@guiart4728]

Start these talks by asking how many people in the audience have automobiles. Then say out of 100 of you 95 have to stop driving forever tomorrow morning. Then apply that to the entire planet and see how many of the people are still there at the end of the talk. It’s all a big joke!

[@rickwilliams1204]

A pile of baloney

[@denisdaly1708]

a few flat earthers about i see