Our Climate in Chaos - an illustrated talk by Dr Tom Rippeth

On Thursday 5th November 2009, Dr Tom Rippeth will be giving an illustrated talk at Yale College Grove Park at 1.30pm.

The talk will include insight about the climate change we are seeing, and particularly some of Tom's work in the High Arctic. His visit to Yale coincides with a road trip of a number of meetings ahead of the December's UN Summit on Climate Change, to help people understand the problems we face with climate change, and the likely action which the UN Summit will call.

Tom Rippeth is a leading Welsh Climate Scientist and is a Reader in Oceanography and climate at the Bangor University's world renown School of Ocean Sciences. Tom is a visiting scientist at the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Liverpool. He has published 50 papers in top international science journals and been invited to speak at many top Oceanography and Climate conferences in the UK and the USA. Tom has a PhD in Physical Oceanography and is a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society.

You can read more about Tom's science here

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A £6m government ad warning about climate change is to be investigated by watchdogs over claims it is misleading and too "scary" for children.
The Advertising Standards Authority has received 357 complaints about the Department of Energy and Climate Change's "bedtime stories" ad.
The ad aims to make adults feel guilty about the impact their carbon emissions are having on their children's future.
It is being used to promote DECC's Act on CO2 carbon reduction initiative.
The minute-long ad, which launched on 9 October, features a father telling his daughter a bedtime story about "a very very strange" world with "horrible consequences" for children.
It then goes on to show streets and houses underwater, with cartoon animals and people drowning and a jagged-tooth monster in the sky, representing global warming.

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