Comments on: Climate Change, the Olympics and Hunger: What’s the link? http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=11288 duncan green poverty to power oxfam development Thu, 23 May 2013 12:52:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: andy eddles http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=11288&cpage=1#comment-211418 andy eddles Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:50:10 +0000 http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=11288#comment-211418 It was 1989 and the then head of the met office had been forced by Thatcher's government to lie on TV and deny global warming. He resigned that day and the next day , by chance, he was due to talk at Plymouth Polytechnic. As a young Ph.D student investigating climate change over the past 12,000 years i was keen to hear what he had to say. As did a large number of the press. He said that the models predicted that our weather would become much more extreme. 22 years on and we are still just talking about it despite having the evidence Tim outlines above. I wonder how many more experts have been forced to lie by governments on this issue and how long it will take governments to really start tackling this problem. It was 1989 and the then head of the met office had been forced by Thatcher’s government to lie on TV and deny global warming. He resigned that day and the next day , by chance, he was due to talk at Plymouth Polytechnic. As a young Ph.D student investigating climate change over the past 12,000 years i was keen to hear what he had to say. As did a large number of the press. He said that the models predicted that our weather would become much more extreme. 22 years on and we are still just talking about it despite having the evidence Tim outlines above. I wonder how many more experts have been forced to lie by governments on this issue and how long it will take governments to really start tackling this problem.

]]> By: Andy Johnstone http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=11288&cpage=1#comment-209515 Andy Johnstone Sun, 12 Aug 2012 06:40:44 +0000 http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=11288#comment-209515 Climate Change and evidence of man-made global warming seem to have slipped off the agenda, partly I suspect because the West, languishing as it is in the economic doldrums is no longer keen to commit to curbing emissions as they search for solutions for their financial woes. But the potential impacts on developing countries of global warming, combined with dips in agricultural productivity and rising populations are very real. I raised this issue in 2009/10 in my film about the Nile Basin. See: www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2010/jan/15/climate-change-nile Climate Change and evidence of man-made global warming seem to have slipped off the agenda, partly I suspect because the West, languishing as it is in the economic doldrums is no longer keen to commit to curbing emissions as they search for solutions for their financial woes. But the potential impacts on developing countries of global warming, combined with dips in agricultural productivity and rising populations are very real. I raised this issue in 2009/10 in my film about the Nile Basin. See:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2010/jan/15/climate-change-nile

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