Bbc Inside Science
Climate change belief; Anthropocene era; Eyes on the sea; Origins of multicellular life
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:27:51
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We all remember the floods across much of central and southern England this time last year, and the devastating effect they had on people's lives and livelihoods. Today, a group of researchers at Cardiff University published a report on how people's perception of climate change has evolved in the wake of the floods. To what extent has our belief in man-made climate change altered? Do we now regard last year's events as a sign of things to come? Adam Rutherford talks to Nick Pidgeon from Cardiff University's School of Psychology who led this UK wide studyEarlier this week an international group of climate scientists, geographers and ecologists met at the Stockholm Resilience Centre in Sweden to wrangle how we can practically make the best of the Anthropocene - the new geological epoch that many consider that we now find ourselves in. Gaia Vince author of Adventures in the Anthropocene, reports from the Stockholm meetingAt the UK's Satellite Application Catapult in Harwell, a project has been unveiled that seek