Brave New Climate, a blog on global change and technology futures, is run by scientist and university professor, Dr. Barry W. Brook.
Barry is a leading environmental researcher, modeller, data analyst and author, in the fields of ecology, conservation biology, palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, and sustainable energy systems. He is a ARC Australian Laureate Professor at the University of Tasmania, where he holds the Chair of Environmental Sustainability. He has published five books, over 300 refereed scientific papers and is an ISI highly cited researcher.
He has received many distinguished awards for his research excellence and public outreach, including the Australian Academy of Science Fenner Medal and the 2010 Community Science Educator of the Year. His research interests are climate change impacts, species extinctions, simulation and statistical modelling, energy systems analysis (with a focus on modelling future nuclear and large-scale renewable energy scenarios), technology options, space science, and synergistic human impacts on the biosphere.
Author of a popular book on sustainable nuclear energy, Barry has been an International Award Committee member for the Global Energy Prize (2012-2016) and a 2012 Senior Fellow at the Breakthrough Institute. He considers himself an Ecomodernist who is motivated to promote real-world, high-capacity and cost-effective solutions to 21st century global environmental challenges – such as nuclear power, offworld resources and other techno-fixes – or related options that history has shown to be reliable and timely. He is also a pragmatist, and seeks effective trade-offs when difficult choices must be made.
A short (2 min, 35 sec) animated video explaining the themes of the BNC blog:
Comments and informed debate are welcome, provided they are logical and evidence-based. For the BNC comments policy, read this.
Disclaimer — The views expressed on this website are my own or my contributors’ and do not necessarily represent those of the University of Tasmania or any other organisation.
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Seeking permission to repost with full attribution your posting of Dr Wigley’s speculations on the outcome of ending all Global Warming emissions by 2050.
Regards,
Jim Holm
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Jim, please feel free to do so
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Barry — Someone on suggested that I marry you.
see link
http://www.peakoilblues.org/blog/?p=249
what do you think about a Canadian gal?
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[…] a talk by Ben Heard (http://www.thinkclimateconsulting.com.au/) and Professor Barry Brooks (https://bravenewclimate.com/about/) The topic was “Powering Cleaner Australia”, organized by Technology Industry […]
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Hi Barry,
Have you any opinion on decentralised power (EG Fuel cells) versus Nuclear or maintaining centralised power generation in any forms?
If not, are you able to point me in the direction of any literature that does study it’s potential?
Thanks
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[…] vuodessa ja suunta jatkuu. Trendi on yhteensopiva tietokonemallien kanssa, kuten esimerkiksi Barry Brook kirjoittaa Brave New Climate […]
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[…] Barry Brook over at BraveNewClimate.com beat me to the punch regarding our latest paper, so I better get off my arse and write my take on things. […]
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Time zone check.
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[…] and Global Change Group at the Spanish National Museum of Natural Sciences), my lab colleagues, Barry Brook, Damien Fordham and Salvador Herrando-Pérez, and Miguel’s post-doc, Regan […]
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[…] in our (Herrando-Pérez, Delean, Brook & Bradshaw) latest paper entitled: Decoupling of component and ensemble density feedbacks in […]
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[…] latest bit of work on this is a paper that a group of us (including Corey’s close colleague, Barry Brook) published in Science. You can see it here (if you don’t have access to Science, email me for a […]
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[…] sind Umweltschützer, aber auch Entwicklungshelfer, auf den IFR aufmerksam geworden. Zusammen mit vielen der an dem […]
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[…] Barry Brookin hieno “Brave New Climate” sivusto pitää sisällään valtavasti asiallista keskustelua ilmaston muutoksesta ja energiapolitiikasta. Mm. tämä Peter Langin kontribuutio (ja sitä seuraava keskustelu) kannattaa kaikkien niiden lukea, jotka haluavat nähdä vertailuja erilaisista vakavista skenaarioista päästöjen vähentämiseksi. Paperi perustuu lukuihin, jotka ovat relevantteja Australiassa, mutta monin paikoin ne ovat varmasti suuntaa antavia myös muualla. (Alussa energiapaletissa on toki suuria eroja maiden välillä.) Kaikki oletukset on selkeästi dokumentoitu niin, että kiinnostuneet voivat toistaa laskut, jos siltä tuntuu. Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:LikeBe the first to like this. Blogroll […]
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[…] years ago, my long-time mate, colleague and co-director, Barry Brook, and I were lamenting how most of our neophyte PhD students were having a hard time putting […]
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[…] mind of conservation thinking who disappeared from us far too soon, but this is a little different. Barry Brook, as is his wont to do, came up with a great idea to get Navjot up posthumously on Google […]
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[…] spent the last few days on the east coast with my science partner-in-crime, Barry Brook, and one of our newest research associates (Marta Rodrigues-Rey Gomez). We first flew into Sydney […]
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[…] Professor Richard Frankham, and including my long-time partner in scientific crime, Professor Barry Brook, we’ve just published a comprehensive review of the genetic basis for the minimum viable […]
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[…] University. Being introduced there to conservation greats like Navjot Sodhi (sadly, now deceased), Barry Brook and David Bowman turned my research interests on their ear. I quickly became enamoured with […]
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[…] listened to the fresh sentiment of the people, and it listened to business, and it listened to our renowned academics, and it listened to ANSTO, and it listened to the […]
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[…] press embargo has just lifted on our (Barry Brook and my) new paper in PNAS where we examine various future scenarios of the human population […]
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[…] Professor Barry W. Brook, Chair of Environmental Sustainability, University of Tasmania, Australia. barry.brook@utas.edu.au […]
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[…] to nuclear power into the pro-nuclear camp. Do have a look at the blogs of ecologists such as Barry Brook for a perfect illustration of how some scientists minds have changed on the nuclear […]
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