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News Release from: IChemE (Institution of Chemical Engineers) | Subject: Lovelock lecture
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Lovelock lecture on global warming
The leading environmentalist, Professor James Lovelock, will deliver the 5th John Collier Lecture in London on Tuesday 28 November 2006, on the subject of 'The consequences of climate change'
The leading environmentalist, Professor James Lovelock, will deliver the 5th John Collier Lecture in London on Tuesday 28 November 2006 Lovelock, who is well-known for his 'Gaia Theory' will address the consequences of climate change and argue that the widely used expression 'global warming' fails to convey the scale of the potential tragedy facing humankind
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 5 Dec 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Lovelock will examine the state of our ecosystem, considering our planet Earth as a dynamic self-regulatory entity of the kind familiar to chemical engineers.
The lecture 'Global Heating from an Engineer's Viewpoint' will take place at Savoy Place in Central London at 1830.
He describes the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report of 2001 as, "One of the scariest official documents I have ever read.
It predicts a probable rise of global temperature of 3C by the end of the century.
And whilst it may not seem much, this was the rise of the global average temperature between the last ice age and the pre-industrial world, a change with profound consequences for the whole Earth".
His use of the expression global 'heating' rather than 'warming' is a deliberate attempt to highlight the urgency of the problem.
In the late seventies, Lovelock created the concept that the Earth functions like a single organism to maintain suitable conditions for survival.
Although he is a committed environmentalist, he rejects wind power in favour of nuclear power as a more realistic means of carbon abatement.
Following the lecture, the IChemE Vice-President, Professor Colin Grant, will present Professor Lovelock with the John Collier Medal, which was established in memory of the Institution Past President who died in 1995.
Please visit the website to register for the event.
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