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Climate change campaigners to take to streets
Hundreds of campaigners are due to march through Bristol on Sunday as part of a global day of action calling for politicians to work to mitigate the worst effects of climate change.
The march will begin in Castle Park and end up in College Green, where a petition will be handed to Molly Scott Cato, Green Party MEP for the South West.
It has timed to coincide with a summit next week of world and city leaders, called by the secretary general of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, to discuss climate change.
Barack Obama, David Cameron and Bristol mayor George Ferguson will attend to talk about ways to cut greenhouse gas emissions, in preparation for a crunch meeting in Paris next year at which world governments are supposed to sign a new global agreement on the climate.
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Nearly 80,000 people have signed up to attend marches in cities around the world – the event is being billed as the largest climate mobilisation in history.
Surrounding the event, experts from around the world will meet in Bristol this month to discuss how best to respond to climate change.
John Cook, author of the Skeptical Science blog, and Professor Michael E Mann, a pivotal figure at the centre of the debate over human-caused climate change, will give public lectures as part of the event.
Professor Stephan Lewandowsky of the University of Bristol, who organised the meeting, said: “Now more than ever, it’s important to address these issues. There’s a widespread public perception that uncertainty is an invitation to delay action on climate change, yet recent work suggests that scientific uncertainty actually provides an impetus to engage in mitigative action. Specifically, the greater the scientific uncertainty, the greater are the risks from climate change under most circumstances.”
John Cook’s Cabot Institute lecture takes place tongiht, 6pm to 7.30pm, in the Victoria Rooms, Queens Road. The event is free and open to all; to attend, register at http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot/events/2014/488.html
Professor Mann’s special Cabot Institute lecture, in association with the Bristol Festival of Ideas, takes place next Tuesday 23 September, 6pm to 7.30pm in the Victoria Rooms. The event is also free and open to all; to attend, register at http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot/events/2014/488.html
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