Notes on Wed 14th Meeting

The discusion on Global Warming and its consequences was led by John Williams using the sources listed below.

He concluded that the certainty of climat change, and its cause was frequently exagerated and that we should read the IPCC reports and the forcasts made by the Hadley Centre and critics of these forecasts carefully.

The impact of elevated tempretures, increased storminess, sea level rise etc would have little impact in our time on our communities.

Communities already in difficulties on account of overpopulation and land/food shortage would be in more trouble.

Next time we should discuss population - led by Judith

Next Meeting Wednesday 11th February 2.30 at Lake House

References:

1. IPCC Report 1 www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-spm.pdf



2. IPCC Report 2 www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg2/ar4-wg2-spm.pdf



3. IPCC Report 3 www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg3/ar4-wg3-spm.pdf



4. Guardian report on Hadley Centre forecasts www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/aug/10/weather.uknews



5. Paul McRay's comments www.paulmacrae.com/?p=74



6. What is this? http://csccc.info/reports/report_24.pdf



7. Wikipedia on Sea Level Rise http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise



8. Google map of sea level rise for your house http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=50.8018,-1.0823&z=4



9. Portsmouth Climate Action Network (PCAN) http://portsmouthcan.co.uk/