[Netnews-action] starting 29 sept: climate change & the human future

[Manchester Campaigns]

reminder:
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                 CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE HUMAN FUTURE -


                        A COURSE FOR THE PUBLIC



WHEN: 7.30 PM TO 9.00 PM ON TEN SUCCESSIVE THURSDAY EVENINGS, 29th
SEPTEMBER TO 1st DECEMBER 2005


WHERE: FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, MOUNT STREET, 

MANCHESTER (NEAR THE TOWN HALL)


COURSE CONTENT:

> Is our climate really changing? Evidence, disputes, greenhouse

gases and the long history of climate science.

> Exceptional events - Summer 2003, Hurricane Katrina -

are they related to global warming ?


> Impacts already seen (?) and impacts predicted to come - 


... increasing severity of storms and droughts

... disruption of agriculture and fisheries

... loss of species and damage to the biosphere

... rising sea levels: megacities and island states in peril

... destruction of ice masses – glaciers and the poles

... geopolitical consequences – stress, conflict, migration.


> Human responses to our threatened future - 


... the political here-and-now : Kyoto and all that

... alternatives to Kyoto

... adaptation: coping with change

... mitigation: minimising the threat

... fossil fuels, other sources of greenhouse gases, and alternative
energy sources and fuels. Hydrogen.

... personal action – what can the citizen do?

FEE: £3.50 PER SESSION, OR £30.00 FOR THE COURSE

(CONCESSIONS AVAILABLE)


CONTACT: Mike Koefman (tutor), CHEC, Bridge-5 Mill,

Beswick Street, 

Manchester M4 7HR.


TEL: 0161 273 8595 


E: mike at hydrogeneconomy.org.uk