openPR Logo
Press release

Cambridge Professor says climate change threat is misunderstood

06-22-2017 11:46 AM CET | Energy & Environment

Press release from: Society of Chemical Industry

Invitation to SCI’s Free Public Evening Lecture

Wednesday 28 June 2017

Professor Michael J Kelly, Prince Phillip Professor of Technology, Cambridge University will speak on future energy needs and engineering reality.

Professor Kelly says that the UK’s rush to counter the effects of climate change has led to a mistaken scramble to invest in pointless alternative energies.

To really tackle the problem, the Government will need a radical plan - nothing short of the biggest peacetime programme of change ever seen in this country.

• Fossil fuels have provided over 90% of the energy consumed on earth since 1800.
• In support of the current global push towards decarbonisation, the UK has committed to reducing greenhouse emissions by at least 80% of 1990 levels before 2050.
• Is it possible to achieve this target? And, if so, how? Are there lessons about the development and introduction of new technologies to be learnt from our past?

A study by the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2010 analysed the options for attaining the 2050 emissions target and concluded:
‘Turning the theoretical emissions reduction targets into reality will require more than political will: it will require nothing short of the biggest peacetime programme of change ever seen in the UK.’

Professor Michael Kelly has previously argued against over-interpretation of the data on climate change and warned about the danger of unintended consequences caused by premature deployment of technologies to combat emissions. On Wednesday 28 June 2017, at SCI’s Public Evening Lecture, he will examine growing global energy needs alongside efforts to reduce emissions and consider how the UK could plan for a sustainable future by looking at lessons from recent technological interventions.

About the Speaker
Professor Michael Kelly has been the Prince Philip Professor of Technology in the University of Cambridge since 2002 and is a Professorial Fellow at Trinity Hall. He was Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department for Communities and Local Government. He was the Executive Director of the Cambridge-MIT Institute, bringing together academics from both institutions to work on research, education, and industrial outreach for the benefit of the UK economy. He has written and spoken on many occasions about the UK’s approach to climate change from an engineering point of view, and was a member of an independent scientific assessment panel to investigate the Climatic Research Unit email controversy in 2010.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society of New Zealand, the Institute of Physics, the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and Senior Member of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineering in the USA. He has won prizes for his work from the Institute of Physics, the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society.

Date for your diary: Wednesday 28 June 2017
Venue: SCI HQ, 15 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PS

Reception opens at 18.00 and the lecture starts at 18.30. This is a free event.
There will be a drinks and networking reception with the opportunity to meet the speaker after the lecture. Please contact scimarketing@soci.org to book a place on the event. More information about each lecture in the series is available at www.soci.org/public-lectures.

-END-

NOTES TO EDITORS

About SCI
SCI is an inclusive, multi-disciplinary and multi-science forum connecting scientists and business people. SCI promotes innovation and education via forums and networks which advance the commercial application of chemistry related sciences into business for public benefit.

SCI is a unique international forum which anyone can join to share and exchange information, ideas, innovations and research. Members have access to a growing network of member specialists from sectors as diverse as food and bio-renewables, water, environment, energy, materials and manufacturing and health and well-being.

www.soci.org

MEDIA CONTACT:
SCI Marketing Team
scimarketing@soci.org
Rhiannon.Garth-Jones@soci.org
+44 (0)207 598 1562

About SCI
SCI is an inclusive, multi-disciplinary and multi-science forum connecting scientists and business people. SCI promotes innovation and education via forums and networks which advance the commercial application of chemistry related sciences into business for public benefit.

SCI is a unique international forum which anyone can join to share and exchange information, ideas, innovations and research. Members have access to a growing network of member specialists from sectors as diverse as food and bio-renewables, water, environment, energy, materials and manufacturing and health and well-being.

14-15 Belgrave Square,
London SW1

This release was published on openPR.

Permanent link to this press release:

Copy
Please set a link in the press area of your homepage to this press release on openPR. openPR disclaims liability for any content contained in this release.

You can edit or delete your press release Cambridge Professor says climate change threat is misunderstood here

News-ID: 590642 • Views:

More Releases from Society of Chemical Industry

Renewables don't even come close to a solution to the global energy crisis we're …
Renewables don't even come close to a solution to the global energy crisis we're facing according to Professor Michael Kelly, Prince Phillip Professor of Technology at Cambridge University. In a lecture entitled "Future energy needs and engineering reality" at the SCI, Professor Kelly, who is a Fellow of the Royal Society and was Chief Scientific Officer to the Department for Communities and Local Government, revealed figures which show that
Britain needs to reshape how it promotes scientific research, Lord Willetts tell …
The way the UK promotes innovation and research should be fundamentally altered to enable us to bring new technologies to market, according to former Science and Universities Minister Lord David Willetts. He called for a network of new research institutes to capitalise on original research and bring new technologies to new markets, in a speech at SCI (the Society of Chemical Industry.) He said the UK scores high in curiosity driven

More Releases for SCI

Black Sci-Fi is the New Black
Black Sci-Fi is the New Black. Black Science Fiction writers & their stories are exploding onto the big screen telling epic tales that captivate and excite. Underfunded and underrepresented, Black writers in the science fiction genre sustain a perilous journey to deliver their precious works to waiting audiences. Beady Beats Music announces acquisition of the latest sci-fi script penned by controversial screenwriter, Saab Lofton. "Hi, I'm a columnist with The Seattle Times,
New Sci-fi Fantasy From Author Damon Wolfe
Shirtless Barbarian Launches One-Man Assault on Temple of Aeons! Sacrificial Victim Missing! Temple Officials Outraged by Audacity of Smelly Foreign Brute. Citizens of the Forbidden City were shocked to learn that the Temple of Aeons was attacked earlier in the week by a ferocious lunatic wielding a great-sword. While the full details have yet to be released, some facts are beginning to emerge. Readers will no doubt recall the moment when the
Author Raymond Bolton Releases New YA Sci-fi Fantasy - Folder
Author Raymond Bolton Releases New YA Sci-fi Fantasy - Folder Author Raymond Bolton is pleased to announce the release of his new YA sci-fi fantasy novel, Folder. Released by Regilius Publishing in November 2020, the book is already receiving rave reviews from readers and reviewers. Eric Folder has moved to Oregon to attend Portland State University when an automobile accident leaves him stricken with migraine headaches. The resulting visual effects—something medical
Author Cyndi Friberg Releases New Sci-fi Romance - Sentinel
Author Cyndi Friberg Releases New Sci-fi Romance - Sentinel Author Cyndi Friberg is pleased to announce the release of her new sci-fi romance, Sentinel: Shadowborn Rebellion, Book 2. Released in July 2020, the book is already receiving rave reviews from readers and reviewers. Book one, Slayer (ISBN: 979-8614281878) was released in March 2020. Determined to spend some time alone with the feisty human he wants as his mate,
Author Cyndi Friberg Releases New Sci-fi Romance - Slayer
Author Cyndi Friberg Releases New Sci-fi Romance - Slayer Author Cyndi Friberg is pleased to announce the release of her new sci-fi romance, Slayer. Released in March 2020, the book is already receiving rave reviews. This is the first book in the Shadowborn Rebellion series. General Malik Xett doesn't have time for romance. His one and only concern is curtailing the power and influence of the ruthless Sarronti elite. Still, the
Sci-Fi Author Launches Revolutionary Space Opera
Matthew J Opdyke is a brilliant and newly published Science Fiction/Fantasy Author with a passion for taking his audience on journeys into the cosmos and inspiring his readers to look at the world with a new vision of futurism. This space novel series is sure to enhance the spirit of fans and the future ideology of the whole world – portraying the relationships between a newly established team of intellectual