Royal Meteorological Society talk

Date: Tuesday 26 November 2013
Time: 18:00 (17.40 for refreshments)
Location: Manchester Metropolitan University, C0.14, John Dalton Building, Chester Street, Manchester, M1 5GD

Professor Piers Forster, Professor of Physical Climate Change, Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science,
University of Leeds.

Title: Hot off the Press: What’s new in Climate Science?

Abstract:
For over 20 years, the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) has provided assessments of climate change research. The IPCC’s First Assessment Report in 1990 played a decisive role in leading to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the second assessment report led to the Kyoto Protocol signing in 1997. After the publication of the forth assessment report in 2007, the IPCC was joint recipient of the Nobel Peace prize. The physical science part of the Fifth Assessment Report, will be released at the end of September 2013. This will provide an update of knowledge related to climate change including information on: recent climate change, the carbon cycle and sea-level rise. It will also produce a set of updated climate projections out until 2100. Piers Forster was one of the lead authors of this report and of past reports. He also helped write the summary for policy makers that will be signed off at a 10 day meeting in Stockholm in September by the World’s governments. He will present his own take on the report, answering questions on the state of climate science and its policy implications.

Have some nice cakes for charity !!

Hello everyone,

I would like to invite you all to a bake-off in aid of the Disasters Emergency Committee's Philippine Typhoon Appeal. Lesley and Martin have kindly offered to fill Mary Berry and Phil Hollywood's shoes for the day and vote on the best cake! The bake-off will take place from 1-2 pm in the common room on the 4th floor, Wednesday the 27th November - Extended to 3pm for MSc Students to buy leftover cakes during their coffee hour. We will provide tea and coffee (although please bring your mug!) and all donations will be gratefully received! If you cannot bake, then please come along to taste all the wonderful cakes!

Let the baking commence!

Cheers,

Beth Roberts

PhD Student

EMSD Praised in The Guardian by Alumni

Hi all,

There was a nice article in the Guardian a few days ago, by Lucy Barrett (a recent EMSD MSc graduate) praising the MSc course and revealing how useful it has been to get her ideal job:

Click HERE to view the article.

In particular, the article said:

"Lucy, now 23, chose the MSc in environmental management and sustainable development at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU). She also did her first degree at MMU, but says she would have chosen it anyway because of the university's good reputation in the field and the fact the course included a work-based placement and project.
While on her placement with the Stockport Homes housing association, Lucy won an award in a national competition for her work to persuade local residents and companies to recycle waste."

Not only did she receive several job offers, she also landed a post with the Environment Agency (EA), the public body that turned her down when she first applied because she had no work experience. "When I graduated with a geography degree, I applied for several jobs, but no one was interested," she says. "I began to realise that having a postgraduate degree is more of a requirement than something extra on the CV."