Bolin, B. (2007) A History of the Science and Politics of Climate Change: The Role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 277 pages Climate scientists, despite what you read thanks to the well-funded denialist lobby, are cautious souls. Probably none has been more reluctant to succumb to the apocalyptic language... Continue Reading →
Human, all too human: I fell into the simple trap of attending things that Looked Interesting because they were on campus, I was on campus, they were free, I was free. And so I have sat through hours of stuff where academics dressed up pretty straight-forward/simple ideas and observations in all the rhetoric and citations... Continue Reading →
So, we went here for Friday lunch. Super-friendly, super cheap and cheerful. Definitely worth supporting this place, trying out everything on the menu. They also have a library of zines and books (including lots of those cool Women's Press books with the zebra spines). There's a call-out for zines about LGBT/feminist themes, and I think... Continue Reading →
Winston could not intermittently remember why the pain was happening. Behind his screwed-up eyelids a forest of fingers seemed to be moving in a sort of dance, weaving in and out, disappearing behind one another and reappearing again. He was trying to count them, he could not remember why. He knew only that it was... Continue Reading →
Memory, whether you want to slice and dice it as "individual" or "collective" is about power and belonging. If you want to belong, you’ll remember it (where “it” is something that “we did to the tribe over the hill”/”they did to us”) the way WE want you to, ‘kay? If you want to be a... Continue Reading →
“Shut up and write.” It’s a good exhortation, though the non-violent communication crowd will probably wince a bit at the tone. On Friday (November 28th) about 15 of us shut up and wrote. It worked like this; We gathered in a room with our laptops and plenty of power sockets. Off with the mobiles (not... Continue Reading →
There was a rather good advice session on Monday. It was on getting books and articles published. The book bit was amusing – we were given a (made-up) example of how NOT to do it and then some solid advice and warnings. Don't, when approaching a publisher (and do some research and personalising of any... Continue Reading →
A rather intriguing and canny seminar at Manchester Business School… Ever stand in the aisle, lost in the supermarket, and wonder what went into getting the products on the shelves? The tin mined for the cans, the oil drilled for the plastic packaging, the lives lost and the futures mortgaged for our present convenience? I... Continue Reading →
My supervisors say I should focus. The wife says I should focus. If the cat could talk, it would tell me to focus (on it). At least two of them are right… Anyhows.. about the birth of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change… By the mid 80s, scientists were getting more and more sure –... Continue Reading →
Yet again I walked (flounced?). Yet again there’s communications (civil this time) with(one of) the organisers of the event. Yet again the old conscience/ego chides “well, instead of specific criticisms, why not spell out how you’ld have done it differently?” Here it is. There’s actually a couple of innovations I dreamt up today. It is... Continue Reading →
