Climate and Energy

Friday 05/02/2010 14:30

For our next colloquium, on Friday 5th February, we’re delighted that Hugh Hunt of the University of Cambridge will talk about ‘Climate change and sustainable energy’. This colloquium will be of very general interest, and undergraduates will, as always, be most welcome.

Is climate change for real? If so, what can we do about it? What is my own carbon footprint? What can I do make a difference? These are the sorts of questions that are addressed in this talk. To answer them we need to do “sums” – just simple addition and multiplication is enough. We must reject solutions that don’t “add up” and we mustn’t rule out possible solutions purely on emotive grounds. Most people take sides before they’ve looked at the sums. Our future is in the balance and we’re in danger of making the wrong choices.

This talk will draw on material from David MacKay’s excellent book “Sustainable energy without the hot air” (which is the recommended book for this semester’s PHYS2015 ‘Energy and the environment’).

This will be at 2.30pm in the seminar room, Tea and cakes afterwards. Programme online.

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