tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21959228.post2468507347074981812..comments2024-03-28T09:14:52.110+00:00Comments on Sinclair's Musings: Peter Singer hears about Contraction and Convergence over a decade late...Matthew Sinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05948452770723874618noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21959228.post-55901283592670090762007-06-27T08:21:00.000+01:002007-06-27T08:21:00.000+01:00To get a better idea of how Contraction and Conver...To get a better idea of how Contraction and Convergence bears on the chaging climate siutation we're non in, a DVD commissioned by the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Climate Change presenting Contraction and Convergence has been distributed to all UK MPs and Peers. <BR/><BR/>This may help to correct the error in Mr Sinclair's assessment of C&C. The error is making an assumption that convergence happens divorced from contraction the result of which is that the rate of climate change continues to accelerate out of control.<BR/><BR/>The DVD clearly shows the marriage of C&C as the global framework of account necessary to avoid this and it is endorsed by numerous eminent spokespersons who are interviewed at length on the DVD.<BR/><BR/>Copies of the DVD can be obtained by written request to GCI aubrey.meyer [at] btinternet.com<BR/><BR/>Alternatively, as a large file [overnight download] interview material is retrievable at this link: - <BR/>http://www.gci.org.uk/images/Contraction_and_Convergence_Challen_et_al.mpg<BR/><BR/>The DVD also includes a heuristic animation of Contraction and Convergence for a risk analysis of different rates of sink-failure endorsed by prominent industry persons. This is a large file [overnight download] and is retrievable at this link:<BR/>http://www.gci.org.uk/images/Contraction_and_Convergence_Risk_Analysis_Sink_Failure.mpg<BR/><BR/>A context animation the arguments, presented at the Royal Institute of British Architects [RIBA] international conference in Venice last October, is here: -<BR/>http://www.gci.org.uk/images/Final_presentation.exe or<BR/>http://www.gci.org.uk/images/CandC_model_context_animation.swf<BR/>[Note: - touch buttons to advances *within* scenes and touch logos to advance *between* scenes].<BR/><BR/>GCI’s definition statement for C&C is here: -<BR/>http://www.gci.org.uk/briefings/ICE.pdf<BR/><BR/>General referencing for the C&C provenance is here: -<BR/>http://www.gci.org.uk/links/detail.pdf<BR/><BR/>A concept/context map of C&C comparing three rates of change for<BR/><BR/>[a] Contraction and Concentrations<BR/>[b] Contraction and Convergence<BR/>[c] Benefits of Growth versus Damages from Climate<BR/>[d] Contraction and Conversion<BR/><BR/>is here: - http://www.gci.org.uk/images/Deepat_Bonn.pdf <BR/><BR/>Some promotional material is here: -<BR/>http://www.gci.org.uk/Movies/Contraction_and_Convergence_Promo.mpgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com