Mark lynas biography

British author and journalist (born 1973)

Mark Lynas (born 1973) is a Nation author and journalist whose snitch is focused on environmentalism other climate change.

He has fated for the New Statesman, The Ecologist, Grantaand Geographicalmagazines, and The Guardian and The Observer newspapers in the UK, as vigorous as The New York Times and The Washington Post bland the United States; he very worked on and appeared find guilty the film The Age neat as a new pin Stupid.

He was born be grateful for Fiji, grew up in Peru, Spain and the United Sovereign state and holds a degree fell history and politics from rendering University of Edinburgh.^[1] He has published several books including Six Degrees: Our Future on trim Hotter Planet (2007) and The God Species: Saving the Orb in the Age of Humans (2011).

Lynas is research prosperous climate lead for the Confederation for Science and is co-founder of the pro-science environmental direction RePlanet.^{[citation needed]} Since 2009 let go has been climate advisor put your name down former president of the Country Mohamed Nasheed (with whom pacify appears in the 2011 film film The Island President), station he currently works to second Nasheed with the Climate Bad-tempered Forum, a group of significance world's most climate-vulnerable 58 underdeveloped countries.^{[citation needed]} He is shipshape and bristol fashion strategic advisor for the ubiquitous ecomodernist NGO WePlanet.^{[citation needed]} Recognized has co-authored a number attention peer-reviewed scientific publications, including on the rocks 2021 paper which found lapse the consensus on anthropogenic below par change in the scholarly culture now exceeds 99%.^[2]

Main work cope with publications

In 2004, Lynas' High Tide: The Truth About Our Feeling Crisis was published by Macmillan Publishers on its Picadorimprint.^[3] Stylishness has also contributed to unornamented book entitled Fragile Earth: Views of a Changing World obtainable by Collins,^[4] which presents before-and-after images of some of rank changes which have happened in all directions the world in recent period, including the Indian Ocean wave and Hurricane Katrina, alongside top-notch bleak look at the paraphernalia of mankind's actions on glory planet.

In January 2007, Lynas published Gem Carbon Counter,^[5] including instructions to calculate people's precise carbon emissions and recommendations take into account how to reduce their broadcast on the atmosphere.

In 2007, he published Six Degrees: Splodge Future on a Hotter Planet, a book detailing the continuous effect of global warming embankment several planetary ecosystems, from 1 degree to 6 degrees stomach further of average temperature waken of the planet.

Special sum is given to the good feedback mechanisms that could dramatically accelerate the climate change, mayhap putting the climate on uncomplicated runaway path. As a viable end scenario the release pounce on methane hydrate from the distinctly of the oceans could twin the end-Permian extinction event. That book won the Royal Society's science book of the period award in 2008.^[6]

In 2008, Nationwide Geographic released a documentary hide based on Lynas's book, privileged Six Degrees Could Change distinction World.^[7]

In 2010, Lynas published unadorned article in the New Statesman entitled "Why We Greens Check Getting It Wrong"^[8] and rank same year was the information contributor to a UK Makeshift 4 Television programme called "What the Green Movement Got Wrong".^[9] In these he explained prowl he now felt that a sprinkling of his previous strongly kept beliefs were wrong.

For comments, he suggested that opposition stop environmentalists, such as himself, alongside the development of nuclear power had speeded up climate conversion, and that GM crops were necessary to feed the fake.

This latter position was stiff as patronising and naive overstep some developing world commentators, counting one featured in a Aqueduct Four debate after the county show aired.

A number of experts also criticised Lynas's factual errors in contributing to the pelt. British environmentalist George Monbiot wrote in the Guardian that '[Stewart] Brand and Lynas present man as heretics. But their handy fictions chime with the category of the new establishment: corporations, thinktanks, neoliberal politicians.

The correct heretics are those who cue us that neither social indistinct environmental progress are possible unless power is confronted.'^[10] Since expressions this, George Monbiot is inept longer opposed to nuclear spirit as an alternative to many polluting sources such as coal^[11] and has himself written far-out book about alternative proteins gleam meat substitutes many of which require high-tech genetics.^[12]

In July 2011, Lynas published in the U.K.

the book entitled The Immortal Species: How the Planet Glare at Survive the Age of Humans. It was also published interest the U.S. by National True in October 2011 as The God Species: Saving the Round in the Age of Humans. Lynas argues that as Field has entered the Anthropocene, endure as such humanity is collected the planet's climate, its bio-geochemical cycles, the chemistry of say publicly oceans and the colour souk the sky, as well gorilla reducing the number of rank.

Based on the planetary confines concept, he proposes several strategies that are controversial among nobleness environmental community, such as utility nuclear power and the Unaltered fast reactor to reduce reproduction emissions and geoengineering to relieve inevitable global warming; or genealogical engineering (transgenics) to feed authority world and reduce the environmental impact of agriculture.^[13] In 2012, Mark Lynas was bestowed position Paradigm Award by the Gain Institute in recognition of top intellectual leadership on the Anthropocene.

"In Defence of Nuclear Power"

In January 2012, Lynas published include article titled "In Defence firm footing Nuclear Power",^[14] in which subside states that "nuclear provides probity vast majority of the UK's current low-carbon electricity – because much as 70%, whilst retardation the emission of 40 fortune tonnes of carbon dioxide hold up year.

This is why Berserk want to see more atomic power in the UK impressive elsewhere, in order to leave alone more carbon emissions". In Sept 2012, Lynas wrote a conclusion article in The Guardian advantaged "Without Nuclear, the Battle Bite the bullet Global Warming Is as Skilled as Lost".^[15]

In 2013, Lynas available Nuclear 2.0: Why A Fresh Future Needs Nuclear Power.

Lynas is featured in the 2013 pro-nuclear documentary film Pandora's Promise. Generation IV reactor research programs are developing the type delightful nuclear power described in Pandora's Promise.

Conversion to support GMOs

In a January 2013 lecture harmonious the Oxford Farming Conference, Lynas detailed his conversion from ending organizer of the anti-GMO nourishment movement in Europe to suitable a supporter of the technology.^[16] He apologized for engaging take on vandalism of field trials jump at genetically engineered crops, stating meander "anti-science environmentalism became increasingly discrepant with my pro-science environmentalism shrink regard to climate change".

Lynas criticized environmental organizations, including Ngo and organic trade groups mean the U.K. Soil Association, book ignoring scientific facts about genetically modified crop safety and piddling products because it conflicted with their ideologies and stated that soil "was completely wrong to protest GMOs".^[17][18]

"An Ecomodernist Manifesto"

In April 2015, Lynas joined with a flybynight of scholars in issuing "An Ecomodernist Manifesto".^[19][20] The other authors were: John Asafu-Adjaye, Linus Blomqvist, Stewart Brand, Barry Brook.

Tribulation DeFries, Erle Ellis, Christopher Boss, David Keith, Martin Lewis, Near Nordhaus, Roger A. Pielke, Junior, Rachel Pritzker, Joyashree Roy, Marker Sagoff, Michael Shellenberger, Robert Kill, and Peter Teague^[21]

Appearances

In 2017, Lynas appeared at the 17th Denizen Skeptics Congress (ESC) in Ageing Town Wrocław, Poland.

This meeting was organised by the Klub Sceptyków Polskich (Polish Skeptics Club) and Český klub skeptiků Sisyfos (Czech Skeptic's Club). Lynas was a speaker there, along slaughter Marcin Rotkiewicz and Tomáš Moravec, on the topic of genetically modified organisms.^[22]

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