Welcome to U3A Climate Study

Goodbye Africa, goodbye south Asia; goodbye glaciers and sea ice, coral reefs and rainforest; it was nice knowing you, not that we really cared. The governments which moved so swiftly to save the banks have bickered and filibustered while the biosphere burns.

www.monbiot.com on Copenhagen 2009 ....see now Durban Disaster 2011

Evidence for Climate Change the science, the observed changes and the skeptics

What is Being Done by governments, industry, research, NGO's and the public

Scenarios for the Future what the experts warn and your theories

What We Can Do to study, test products, create the market and influence legislation

Latest News and Key Information

Summary for Non-Scientists 4 page pictorial leaflet  Nov 2010	Durban Disaster 2011  11/12/11   Ice Age Anomaly Resolved 05/04/12
Shale Oil Discoveries may divert governments from the Crisis  22/09/11	Arctic Methane Increasing Rapidly  13/12/11
Grid Scale Battery Technology  breakthrough 30/11/11	World's Largest Wind Farm Opens in UK 24/02/12
Extreme Melting on Greenland Ice Sheet likely to accelerate 13/10/11	Denmark Aims to be Greenest country by 2020  27/03/12
US has 2000 times its energy needs - Geothermal  18/09/10	Developing World Consumption Exceeds Developed World for the first time 2010
Permafrost Danger Increased  30/11/11	You must read Climate Code Red or A Summary.
Could microbes be part of the answer ? 05/10/11

This website was started by Malcolm Crocker of U3A Henley-on-Thames and Tom Holloway of U3A International UK in 2006 to study climate change - its effects and remedies and now has 18 registered contributors.

We invite you to join this online study group which will sift through the evidence and the latest technologies and actions to try to build a better picture for the general public. The site now contains over 1000 authoritative extracts and needs your help to build it and comment on the entries. Please also report your Eco Projects, like Marchwood Eco Renovation or your Toyota Prius, so that others may be able to plan their projects.

Introduction

Climate Change will affect our grandchildren and the whole of civilisation in profound ways but most of us know so little about it. Until we know more the politicians are not free to propose legislation radical enough to deal with the problem and its effects.

The subject is also highly complex as it involves physics, technology, meteorology, plant and animal sciences, fuel sciences, politics and world poverty. Scientists do not have experience in all these fields so a real team effort is needed. The answers however need to be expressed in terms all can understand.

This is not an attempt at a structured overview of the whole problem. This is already well done by Climate Code Red, Heat by George Monbiot, Put the Numbers Together, An Inconvenient Truth and many other great books. It is not prepared by renowned climate scientists but by people with a scientific interest in learning the truth by examining a wide range of assertions and testing them with your help. Articles in our skeptics section deliberately throw doubt on other parts of the work. We just want to piece together the truth in our own minds. What is the situation? What is the future likely to hold? Could it be much worse than science predicts? What steps are being taken by governments and industry? Are they adequate? How will it affect us? What can we do?

Have you seen articles which may hold the key to our future? Is a possible scenario forming in your mind? Can you comment on or criticize our current material? Please tell us about it.

How to join in

If you are a guest and you would like to take part please send an email to malcolm@3as.org.uk with the entry you want to make, and I will enter it for you. If your entry is constructive I will register you and you will be able to join in fully.