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The ‘perfect storm’ revisited: food, energy and water security in the context of climate change

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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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Sir John Beddington, Senior Adviser at the Oxford Martin School, gives a talk on climate change
Some five years ago Sir John Beddington, Senior Adviser at the Oxford Martin School, raised the concept of 'The Perfect Storm' in which the issues of food, water and energy security needed to be addressed at the same time as mitigating and adapting to climate change. In this seminar he highlights changes that have occurred since then and the progress made and challenges that are currently faced.
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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John Beddingham
Keywords
climate change
food
Energy
ecology
Environment
water
water security
Department: Oxford Martin School
Date Added: 18/08/2015
Duration: 01:27:45

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Climate change and our oceans

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Professor Gideon Henderson, Professor of Earth Sciences, and Professor David Marshall, Professor of Physical Oceanography, will explore the role of oceans in climate change.
How are oceans affected by our rapidly changing climate? What can they tell us about the processes controlling climate change? And what role do they play in driving climate?
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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Gideon Henderson
David Marshall
Keywords
climate change
ocean
water
ecology
Environment
Department: Oxford Martin School
Date Added: 18/08/2015
Duration: 01:22:01

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Hopes and fears: why people disagree about how to tackle climate

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In this seminar Dr Rob Bellamy, James Martin Fellow at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, will explore how and why people disagree about how to tackle climate change. What hope then is there for a global political agreement in Paris 2015?
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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David Marshall
Keywords
climate change
ecology
Environment
Department: Oxford Martin School
Date Added: 18/08/2015
Duration: 01:09:38

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Climate change: dealing with uncertainty

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In this talk Professor Tim Palmer CBE, Co-Director of the Programme on Modelling and Predicting Climate, gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School.
Tim Palmer will address three related questions. Firstly, what are the physical reasons why predictions of climate change are necessarily uncertain? Secondly, how can we communicate this uncertainty in a simple but rigorous way to those policy makers for whom uncertainty quantification may seem an unnecessary complication. Finally, what is needed to reduce uncertainty about future climate change? For the latter, I will argue that the sort of inspiration and ambition that led to the Large Hadron Collider is now needed for the development of climate-change science.
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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Tim Palmer
Keywords
climate change
ecology
uncertainty
Department: Oxford Martin School
Date Added: 18/08/2015
Duration: 01:18:01

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Rich and poor: a cause for social unrest? at the Oxford Literary Festival 2015

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John Kampfner and Katrine Marçal discuss the growing gap between rich and poor and its implications for society, chaired by Professor Ian Goldin.
This roundtable is part of the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival 2015, the Oxford Martin School is the Festival Ideas Partner
Is it morally justified to allow the creation of a 'super rich' that leave the rest behind? Is the growing gap between rich and poor actually holding back wider economic growth and financial wellbeing? Could it be a cause of social unrest? And what can we do to address the gap between rich and poor?
This panel event is one of a series of roundtable talks and audience question time hosted by the Oxford Martin School.
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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John Kampfner
Ian Goldin
Katrine Marcal
Keywords
economics
civil unrest
wealth
inequality
rich
poor
Department: Oxford Martin School
Date Added: 18/08/2015
Duration: 01:00:29

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The future of Africa at the Oxford Literary Festival 2015

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Three authors with recent books on Africa discuss the future of the continent and answer questions from the audience under the watchful eye of the director of the Oxford Martin School, Professor Ian Goldin.
Martin Meredith, Jonny Steinberg and Tom Burgis will discuss what the future holds for African states. How can the continent deal with failing government and corruption and with war and a constant flow of refugees? How far is Africa a victim of its past, and is there a new financial colonialism holding it back? What can the rest of the world do to help Africa to grow and prosper in peace?
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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Martin Meredith
Jonny Steinberg
Tom Burgis
Keywords
Africa
politics
refugees
humanitarianism
Department: Oxford Martin School
Date Added: 18/08/2015
Duration: 00:59:20

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The limits of human performance and artificial intelligence

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In this new Oxford talk, Garry Kasparov, Senior Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Martin School, turns his attention to the rapidly evolving relationship between humans and technology.
In this new talk, Garry Kasparov turns his attention to the rapidly evolving relationship between humans and technology. He will explore the impact of technology on human development – how it can enhance, limit or possibly even endanger the human race. Kasparov will consider the possibilities, limitations and risks of this ever-changing field of potential, looking at a wide range of developments, from nano-sensors to the prospect of artificial intelligence.
He will also address the issues surrounding data and privacy, offering his perspective on whether potential breakthroughs and advantages are worth the risk to privacy. He will examine the opposing views of those who fear the risks and those who seem only to embrace the upside of new generations of technology.
In what promises to be a lively and wide-ranging talk, Garry Kasparov brings his unique perspective to a set of issues that are hotly debated and constantly in the headlines
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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Garry Kasparov
Keywords
technology
artificial intelligence
computing
Department: Oxford Martin School
Date Added: 18/08/2015
Duration: 01:21:12

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Philae at the comet: a scientific adventure

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Professor Chris Lintott, Professor of Astrophysics, University of Oxford and presenter of the BBC’s Sky at Night will talk about the history and the science of the voyage.
Professor Ian Goldin, Director, Oxford Martin School and Chris will discuss the implications and politics of Europe’s mission to study a comet that is three hundred million miles away. On 12th November 2014, after a 10 year journey, the Rosetta spacecraft's lander Philae touched down on the surface of the comet 67P, also known as Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The robotic European Space Agency lander not only took images from the comet’s surface, the first images in history, but obtained data that was sent back to be analysed. This data will be used to determine the composition of the surface of the comet. But what does this mean? And what implications does it have?
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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Chris Lintott
Ian Goldin
Keywords
Physics
astrophysics
space
Philae
comets
astronomy
Department: Oxford Martin School
Date Added: 18/08/2015
Duration: 01:11:21

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The metabolism of a human-dominated planet

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Yadvinder Malhi, Director of the Oxford Centre ofr Tropical Forests, gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School.
We live in a new epoch, the Anthropocene, the Age of Us, of which climate change is just one aspect. The defining feature of this age is that sum of human activity (how many we are and what we are doing) has become large compared to the natural processes of the biosphere. The atmospheric waste products of our activity being the main driver of climate change. How can we measure how “large” we are, and how has our impact on the planet varied throughout human history?
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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Yadvinder Malhi
Keywords
Environment
population
biodiversity
anthropocene
Department: Oxford Martin School
Date Added: 18/08/2015
Duration: 01:15:02

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Living in a quantum world

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Vlatko Vedral, Co-=Direct oof the Oxford Martin Programme on Bio-Inspired Quantum Technologies, gives a talk for theOxford Martin School.
Quantum mechanics is commonly said to be a theory of microscopic things: molecules, atoms, subatomic particles. Nearly all physicists, though, think it applies to everything, no matter what the size. The reason its distinctive features tend to be hidden is not a simple matter of scale. Over the past few years experimentalists have seen quantum effects in a growing number of macroscopic systems. The quintessential quantum effect, entanglement, can even occur in large systems as well as warm ones - including living organisms - even though molecular jiggling might be expected to disrupt entanglement.
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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Vlatko Vedral
Keywords
Physics
quantum
quantum mechanics
Department: Oxford Martin School
Date Added: 18/08/2015
Duration: 01:13:11

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