Hi Reddit, I'm Prof. Lorraine Whitmarsh from the University of Bath in the United Kingdom.
For the past 20 years, I have studied how people respond to the environment and environmental issues. I am particularly interested in what people think, feel and do in relation to climate change, and how we can encourage public engagement and behaviour change to help reduce our emissions and adapt to climate change impacts, like floods and droughts. My research projects have included studies of energy efficiency behaviours, waste reduction and carrier bag reuse, perceptions of smart technologies and electric vehicles, low-carbon lifestyles, and responses to climate change.
For the last 18 months, I’ve directed the UK’s Centre for Climate Change & Social Transformations (CAST) which aims to understand the role people can play in tackling climate change and develop more effective ways of changing behaviour, organisations and policies to reduce carbon emissions. I’ve also recently been an expert lead for Climate Assembly UK, the UK’s first citizen’s assembly on climate change, which brought together a representative group of 108 members of the public to explore and debate climate change solutions and produce recommendations for how the UK can reach ‘net zero’ emissions by 2050.
I regularly advise governmental and other organisations on low-carbon behaviour change and climate change communication, and am a Lead Author for the IPCC’s Working Group II Sixth Assessment Report.
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Excerpt copied below from http://www.f1zone.net/news/rating-kimi-raikkonens-technical-ability/10802/
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"Raikkonen displayed some stunning performances in the latter half of the 2009 season after Ferrari halted development on the F60 to focus on the 2010 car.
According to F1 journalist James Allen, "His performances from July onwards in a car which Ferrari had stopped developing, were astonishing. Even the Ferrari engineers don’t fully understand how he managed to get some of the podiums he did based on the performance of his car, compared to the opposition."
Autosport editor Jonathan Noble also reported, "One team insider suggested that, looking at the data, Raikkonen has once again been doing things in the cockpit of a very difficult car that they can hardly believe. He is going beyond what, theoretically, the F60 would be capable of in normal hands as though the Finn's last great act of defiance is to prove to his former bosses that they were wrong."
McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh has long been a big proponent of Raikkonen, having worked with the Finn at McLaren for five years from 2002-2006.
Whitmarsh tried to sign Raikkonen after he left Ferrari in 2009, saying, "He is not political, he is absolutely straightforward – what you see is what you get with Kimi – and on top of that everyone knows that he is a winning driver. I think he has been underestimated technically."
In an interview earlier this year with German website Motorsport-total.com, Whitmarsh also said, "I am a Kimi fan and I have never made a secret of it. I think he is an underrated driver - not underrated in that sense because everyone knows how fast he is, but I think people don't realize how smart he is and how good the technical feedback he can give to a team."
By signing a former world champion, Lotus-Renault have signaled that they are serious about their future in the sport. Hopefully the partnership between Renault and Raikkonen, who has been so highly rated by the people who worked with him in the past, will be successful in the seasons ahead."
My take:
The front suspension was changed after Massa's accident as we all know. Kimi just took off like a rocket. He was already stronger reliability and bad luck adjusted before that anyways. Also Kimi had outqualified his teammate.
Kimi's feedback has always been insanely good, his image just hurt him in his earlier years. For some rea
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