The Royal College of Physicians had a conference recently entitled "Climate Change and its Impact on Health" with a top flight range of speakers.Cartoon: courtesy of local scribbler Russ - it is time we embraced wind turbines and much much more
The good news is that the entire thing including the speaking to go with the slides is available online - grab a look while it is publicly visible:
http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/event/ArchiveEvent/0801Climate.aspx
Speakers included Tom Burke (RTZ), Sir David King (ex Govt Chief Scientist), Lord Adair Turner (ex CBI head), James Hansen (NASA) as well as senior medical professionals. I hear that as they were speaking away from their usual cautious parent bodies there was a broad
consensus that things are far more serious than any of the 'official' (eg IPCC, never mind govts) bodies have dared to say publicly.
The news seems to be that all of these people from a broad range of industry and govt 'get it' and see we have a very serious problem. 60 months (now just over 58) is suggested as the window of opportunity for serious action to be in progress to avoid disaster. That means that the present shower of politicians have got to be made to act, and act fast - no good waiting for an election to change things, we simply have to engage with and work with what we've got. Even waiting to see if a new US president an offer some changes in 11 months time is wasting precious time.
The formal speeches to listen to on the website apparently give a good flavour of the event - I hope to catch up with them over this weekend. The good news is that there is still optimism that we can turn things around - 59.6 months to get going.
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