
Mark will start the day off by giving the latest updates on his years’ of experience in summarising the research into climate change. If you have read his book “Six Degrees - Our Future on a Hotter Planet”, you will be familiar with the degree-by-degree forecasts for our global future. Mark’s concise presentation will set the context for the challenge of human-induced climate change which is one of the main issues we want and need to address in our efforts towards sustainability.
Mark’s website www.marklynas.org is devoted to discussion of climate change, and ecological issues in general. The front page of his site carries selected highlights from the rest of the site: for more, please see the articles page, which changes often, and the books page, which does not. There is also an archive of everything, a bit of background about him, and a few ways to get in touch.
Strand: Transition, Energy Descent, Low-Carbon Future
Type of event: presentation
Place: Main Hall in the Primary School
Starts: 09:30
Ends: 10:30
Presenter's Personal/Professional Background: Mark Lynas
journalist, author
Mark Lynas has worked for nearly a decade as a specialist on climate change, and is author of three books on the subject – ‘High Tide: News from a warming world’ (2004), ‘Carbon Calculator’ (2007) and ‘Six Degrees: Our future on a hotter planet’ (2007).
High Tide was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Award for Non-Fiction, and short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award. It became a best-seller in Sweden. Six Degrees was long-listed for the Orwell Prize in 2008, and won the prestigious Royal Society Prize for Science Books in the same year.
Six Degrees is published in the US by National Geographic, which has also made a television documentary based on the book and broadcast on the National Geographic channel internationally. Lynas was selected as a National Geographic ‘Emerging Explorer’ in 2006, and was placed at no.7 in the Independent’s Green List 2007. He writes for various newspapers and magazines, recently including the Guardian and the Independent, and is a frequent contributor to the New Statesman.
Website: http://www.marklynas.org/
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