The local Norfolk newspaper, the Eastern Daily Press, interviewed me for this life scientific piece about my work, background, and time-off.
Empowering the public to tackle climate change
Author: glymey
My take about climategate
There is nothing at all new about fake news. Ten years ago November 2009 was the politically motivated theft of email from UEA’s Climatic Research Unit with cherry-picked sentences published, trying to discredit global warming data. This is a November 2019 interview with the local Eastern Daily Press newspaper “I think it sped up the whole process of climate science being believed and seen to be valuable to society.”
Director and Manager
I have over 20 years’ experience of the culture of academic research. I do organisational leadership, project management and delivery, financial control and planning, human resources, strategy development and delivery, and problem-solving. I also make the coffee.
Strategic Manager – A leader of operations, budgets, personnel, project & risk management. Founder of ClimateUEA, copied across all of UEA’s intellectual pillars.
Science communicator – pioneer applying the science of climate change communication
Impact achiever – REF2014 rates Tyndall Centre partners as leaders in UK Impact
Policy engager – science communication on projects for UK Gov IPCC, EU, UNFCCC, Local Authorities
Capacity-builder – science communication training for EU projects and GCRF-funded projects, EU expert
Digital deliverer – Tyndall online climate voice equivalent to UK Met Office, NASA
Policy dialoguer – UNFCCC observer since 2000, EU, UK, UN
Public participator – Art-Climate exhibition 2016, RHS Chelsea Flower Show Medal 2008
Non-academic – though long ago contributed to 11 papers about the field experiments that underpin biodiversity and ecosystem services
Fundraiser – I bring research and consultancy income and engage with charities, philanthropists and other funders
The science of climate change communication 