Workshop 1: Climate Catastrophe, where are we heading?

Resources:

Videos of speaker presentations

Speaker presentations from the day appear here in order of the programme. Most videos are split into three or more parts and are also available on YouTube.
Our thanks to Olly Hill for filming and editing.

Powerpoint presentations and other supporting material

Kevin Anderson, Tyndall Centre

• Reframing Climate Change: How recent emissions trends & the latest science change the debate, Tyndall Centre, University of Manchester, 2008 (Powerpoint presentation to the Crisis Forum workshop).
• Kevin Anderson and Alice Bows, 2008, Reframing the climate change challenge in light of post-2000 emission trends, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, 366, 3863–3882 (doi:10.1098/rsta.2008.0138)

David Wasdell, Apollo-Gaia Project

• Feedback Dynamics and the Acceleration of Climate Change (Powerpoint presentation to the Crisis Forum workshop).
• Feedback Dynamics and the Acceleration of Climate Change, Presentation to The Club of Rome International Conference on Managing the Interconnected Challenges of Climate Change, Energy Security and Water, 6th and 7th November 2008.

• Radiative Forcing, Climate Sensitivity & Boundary Conditions of Runaway Climate Change, 2008
  [Initially prepared for the Tällberg Tipping-Points Workshop 25th and 26th June 2008, Revised and expanded on 10th December 2008]

Aubrey Meyer, Global Commons Institute

• Two Decades of Countering the Economics of Genocide with C&C, A collection of materials for the workshop organised by the Crisis Forum at Southampton University 14 November 2008.
• Carbon Countdown: The campaign for Contraction and Convergence, 2008.
• Latest C&C Animation [Bali] with Hadley Centre Coupled Modelling (2008) with sink-failure animation.

Dave Webb, The Praxis Centre, Leeds Metropolitan University

• Geoengineering and its Implications, Crisis Forum: Climate Change and Violence workshop series Workshop 1: Climate Catastrophe, Where are we heading? 14 November 2008University of Southampton (Powerpoint presentation to the Crisis Forum workshop).

Other resources:

Alex Lockwood, Forum: climate change and violence, blog and comments, a review of the workshop on, Green Journalism, 18 November, 2008.

Mark Levene, Predicting Genocide in an Age of Anthropogenic Climate Change: An Interim Report*, 2009.
A shortened version of this piece entitled 'From Past to Future: Prospects for Genocide and its Avoidance in the Twenty-First Century,' will be published in Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses, eds. Genocide, Oxford History Handbooks (Oxford: Oxford University Press forthcoming 2009).

Corporate Watch, Technofixes: A Critical Guide to Climate Change Technologies, 2008.

More to follow.