[SGRupdate] News from SGR - Nov 2014

[Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR)]

Dear friends and colleagues

Here are some recent additions to the SGR website and beyond:

* CapGlobalCarbon: a global response to a global problem

John Jopling argues that a radical addition is needed to the international
system for curbing carbon emissions.
http://www.sgr.org.uk/resources/capglobalcarbon-global-response-global-problem

* Can we get on with saving planet Earth now, please?

Stuart Parkinson argues that the publication of the latest IPCC report and
fatal crash of SpaceShipTwo should spur engineers, scientists and others into
putting more effort into reducing carbon emissions.
http://www.sgr.org.uk/resources/can-we-get-saving-planet-earth-now-please

* Scientific publication in peril: the Séralini affair

Eva Novotny discusses the controversy surrounding an academic paper showing
health problems in a feeding trial of a GM crop – and what it says about
corporate influence in this field.
http://www.sgr.org.uk/resources/scientific-publication-peril-seralini-affair

* Living within environmental limits: from science to practice

Extended summary of SGR conference and AGM 2014
http://www.sgr.org.uk/sites/sgr.org.uk/files/SGRconf2014_summary4web.pdf

* Is it robust knowledge or make believe?
Evidence, uncertainty and the role of values

Video of conference session at Nottingham University

Angela Cassidy (Kings College London), Tim Johnson (Heriot-Watt University),
Stuart Parkinson (SGR)

http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/circlingthesquare/2014/11/14/panel-5-is-it-robust-knowledge-or-make-believe-evidence-uncertainty-and-the-role-of-values-a-cassidy-t-johnson-s-parkinson/

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