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Asher Minns

University of East Anglia

Current Position
Centre Manager.

Role at Tyndall
To implement an overall communications strategy for the Tyndall Centre to engage target audiences with Tyndall Centre Research, disseminate research results through the media and other channels, offer evidence to UK, EU and international government bodies, and ensure effective internal communication across the Tyndall Centre partnership. I'm also the manager of the Tyndall Centre at UEA - admin, personnel, finance, that type of thing.

Role at Council
Headquarters.

Research Interests
Asher Minns is science communicator who specialises in knowledge transfer of climate change research to audiences that are outside of academia. He has 15 years experience of UK and international environmental sciences research, including ten years as a full-time communicator, and lectures on climate change communication in the UK and abroad. Asher is interdisciplinary with a humanities MSc in Science Communication, a science degree in Environmental Biology, and is a fully apprenticed Radar Engineer. His University career has spanned the Centre for Population Biology at Imperial College, London, the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University, and the Tyndall Centre Headquarters at the University of East Anglia.

Personal website
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/asher-minns

Other website
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhUtepqBSI0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Contact information

E-mail: a.minns@uea.ac.uk

Phone: +44 0 1603 593900 / + 44 0 7880 547843

Postal Address
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ UK

Twitter
Personal: @AsherMinns
Future Earth Europe: @FEEurope
Tyndall Centre: @TyndallCentre

Publications

The challenge of communicating unwelcome climate messages

With the probability that global temperature rise can be kept below the 2°C target continuing to diminish, citizens as well as economic and political decision makers need to engage with knowledge about the likelihood and implications of severe future impacts, and the scale of mitigation required to avoid them, the likes of which few want to hear. This working paper reflects on the challenges and offers guidance for the way ahead.

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The challenge of communicating unwelcome climate messages

With the probability that global temperature rise can be kept below the 2°C target continuing to diminish, citizens as well as economic and political decision makers need to engage with knowledge about the likelihood and implications of severe future impacts, and the scale of mitigation required to avoid them, the likes of which few want to hear. This working paper reflects on the challenges and offers guidance for the way ahead.

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Towards a culture of low-carbon research for the 21st Century

The research community has highlighted for several decades the implications of greenhouse gas emissions for climate change. In response, world governments have agreed to limit global temperature change to 2°C, which requires drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. In advanced economies, a commitment to a 2°C limit generally represents a reduction of emissions of between 80-95% from the 1990 baseline. Despite this, emissions from international aviation increased by 53 % between 1990 and 2011 in those countries.

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