Rupert's Read

Kuhn vs. Popper: Have a listen to me on the radio on this: http://www.mixcloud.com/audayee2/science-poppers-heroes-kuhns-communities-action-on-climate-change-optimisim-and-creativity/

This is rather beautifully done: A podcast interview with me on my 'guardians for future generations' proposal: http://www.tympaniceclipse.org/2012/06/26/working-to-protect-people-well-never-meet-the-philosophy-and-politics-of-dr-rupert-read/  

Believe in democracy?: http://www.greenworld.org.uk/page355/page355.html My new article calling for radical democratic Lords reform, in print in the Green Party's official magazine :-)

As readers of Rupert's Read will have been aware for some years, there is a horrible disconnect between the British government's CLAIMS about Britain's carbon emissions, and the dirty reality. See below for more information - from our new Green House report on this: UK Greenhouse Gas Emissions Actually Rising Official Figures 'Misleading' Claims green think tank The British delegation at the Rio Conference will hold their heads up high: the UK, we will be told, has made great strides in reducing its greenhouse gas emissions. Yet analysis from environmental think tank Green House based on government figures demonstrates that this is a misleading claim and that, in reality, UK emissions have been rising. The official figures will leave two important contributors to greenhouse gas emissions out of the picture: Emissions from air travel and shipping, that together have doubled since 1990, from 3.2% of total UK em...

Geoff Lean's reporting in the Telegraph of my Hay debate with Mike Hulme: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/hay-festival/9308587/Hay-Festival-2012-day-three-as-it-happened.html#  : 19.15 Geoffrey Lean   has sent this report from a "vigorous debate" at the Hay on Earth tent on   philosophy, politics and communication with Mike Hulme and Rupert Read: If climate scientists are partially responsible for beating they have taken over the last two and a half years, how much are they themselves to blame? Two academics from the University of East Anglian - at the heart of the storm since thousands of emails were leaked in November 2009- give very different answers. Mike Hulme, professor of climate science, believes that scientists ascribed too much certainty to their findings and went beyond the constraints of their discipline to make value judgements and recommendations for action. Rupert Read, reader, in philosophy, says that , on the con...