ANVIL and COP26 17-11-2021

CLIMATE CHANGE, SCIENCE, SPECULATION AND PROPAGANDA

We had an excellent session with our two speakers kicking off not they said as Climate Change deniers, but as questioning science driven voices.  After their 40 min and 30 min talks, everyone who wishes spoke  out their views and a vigorous discussion followed.  I only gave bits of the paper I had prepared but here it is with responses from Greg and Iain to make of it what you will.
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CC The Gov Climate Change Committee Latest Predictions

CCC Climate Change Committee                                                                                The Sixth Carbon Budget. The UK’s Path to Net Zero  Predictions made in 2020, CONFIRMED 2021
The need to adapt to a changing climate This section summarises the evidence that indicates climate impacts will continue to increase even under a rapid reduction in global emissions and could be greater still if global emissions reductions are not sufficiently rapid to achieve the Paris Agreement. Continue reading

BREAKING BOUNDARIES The video and book you must not miss.

Please be ready to  copy and forward this on to your friends –  try and engage them in discussion. We can all get engaged in waking people up to how serious the situation is so they will accept and work for change.

At the instigation of the authors of THE FUTURE WE CHOOSE  (Figueres amd Rivett-Carnac. Summary attached) who organised a webinar I watched on Zoom, I have now watched and commend for you a quite exceptionally important video entitled:

                                          BREAKING BOUNDARIES
                                           The Science of Our Planet
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A Resilience Service. A suggestion

 

The aim of this paper is to encourage the setting up of a national resilience service to prepare for and deal with pandemics and climate change.

There will be no return to business as usual. Covid-19, flooding, drought, extreme weather, air and plastic pollution,  all threaten our lives, health, and work.  Covid has rudely woken us up to the fact that we face a radically different future from anything we have known, imagined or prepared for, despite the warnings scientists in many fields have been giving us for years. Continue reading

The Future we Choose     Surviving the Climate Crisis: Summary

The Future we Choose     Surviving the Climate Crisis by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac  Feb 2020 (Amazon £9.54.)  I write this to encourage you to obtain and read this important book and to give you a useful summary of its contents.  It has a powerful and inspiring message, that there still is the possibility for us to build a fulfilling and sustainable future, and I do this for the sake of my grandchildren.  John Baxter 2021 The Future we Choose

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