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LOW-LYING Selby district is particularly prone to climate change, according to a top York academic.
Professor John Whitelegg, from the Stockholm Institute at the University of York, has written a report into the impact of climate change in the Yorkshire and Humber region.
He said: "Much of Selby district is very low lying and, as such, is more prone to flooding, which is likely to become more a problem with climate change. Our road and rail networks will struggle to cope with the extreme weather conditions associated with climate change.
"Climate change will have a serious impact on health through heat stress in summer months, an increase in food poisoning episodes as a result of warmer weather and an increase in skin cancers.
"Reducing greenhouse gases to assist in avoiding deaths from these causes has to take the highest possible priority."
Selby District Council has given residents one more week to suggest proposals for its climate change strategy.
This key document will inform the council's policies on the changing climate - both in terms of how the authority can reduce its own carbon emissions and how it can better support residents and businesses to deal with the affects of climate change, such as the greater risk of flooding.
Mark Crane, leader of the district council, said some community groups, parish and town councils, and organisations working closely with the district council had been contacted directly about the proposals and asked for their comments.
"It's really important we also get the views of local residents as well as these groups if we are to ensure our proposals meet the needs of people living and working in the district," he said.
"Global warming continues to be a priority for Selby District Council because, although it's a global issue, it has the potential to affect every one of us here in Selby district. We want to be able to effectively support people to take steps to reduce their individual impact on climate change as well as reduce our own carbon emissions.
He said the council signed an agreement to help tackle climate change in 2006. "We believe it's an issue that affects everyone who lives or works in the area," he said.
"Tackling the causes of climate change and developing services to meet the needs of a changing climate will continue to be a priority for the authority."
The proposed strategy can be found on the council's website at www.selby.gov.uk.
Copies are also available at Selby Civic Centre and the council's offices in Sherburn-in-Elmet and Tadcaster. Comments can be made by emailing envfeedback@selby.gov.uk or by writing to Selby District Council, Environmental Services (Climate Change), Civic Centre, Portholme Road, Selby, YO8 4SB.
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6:30pm Tuesday 25th March 2008
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CommentPosted by: TW, Wrong Planet on 6:56pm Tue 25 Mar 08
[quote]Have your say
What are you doing to alleviate climate change?[/quote]
Ignoring all the hype and bulls**t and getting on with life
Have your say
What are you doing to alleviate climate change?
Ignoring all the hype and bulls**t and getting on with life
Posted by: petethefeet, York on 7:11pm Tue 25 Mar 08
So why was the national coal board allowed to extract coal-seams several feet thick?
So why was the national coal board allowed to extract coal-seams several feet thick?
Posted by: Gromit, South Bank on 8:51pm Tue 25 Mar 08
I'm hoping for a big volcanic eruption, maybe from Yellow Stone Park or Mount Vicarious, to wipe out the human race all together. Selfish bunch of people we all are, not caring for anything else but our selves.
I'm hoping for a big volcanic eruption, maybe from Yellow Stone Park or Mount Vicarious, to wipe out the human race all together. Selfish bunch of people we all are, not caring for anything else but our selves.
Posted by: TooRad, york on 9:08pm Tue 25 Mar 08
[quote]Professor John Whitelegg, from the Stockholm Institute at the University of York, has written a report into the impact of climate change in the Yorkshire and Humber region.[/quote]
Well Professor, you may have great intelligence, understanding and processing power. You may have years and years of education and dedicated objective study under your belt. You may have all the research tools, resources and pooled brain power available to a top university professor.
But I'm afraid none of that makes a scrap of difference.
Because there's millions of armchair experts with exclusive incontrovertible opinions who will tell you that it's nothing but a tax scam and a way to pick on the happy friendly motorist. It's all a natural cycle and nothing to worry about, you're just arbitrarily picking on people's lifestyles and freedoms, apparently.
Shame you wasted all that time studying when all these other gobsh1tes know better than you and all they did was read the fookin tabloids and listen to the advertising.
Ho hum
Professor John Whitelegg, from the Stockholm Institute at the University of York, has written a report into the impact of climate change in the Yorkshire and Humber region.
Well Professor, you may have great intelligence, understanding and processing power. You may have years and years of education and dedicated objective study under your belt. You may have all the research tools, resources and pooled brain power available to a top university professor.
But I'm afraid none of that makes a scrap of difference.
Because there's millions of armchair experts with exclusive incontrovertible opinions who will tell you that it's nothing but a tax scam and a way to pick on the happy friendly motorist. It's all a natural cycle and nothing to worry about, you're just arbitrarily picking on people's lifestyles and freedoms, apparently.
Shame you wasted all that time studying when all these other gobsh1tes know better than you and all they did was read the fookin tabloids and listen to the advertising.
Ho hum
Posted by: KarenWhite1978, Heslington on 9:45pm Tue 25 Mar 08
"What are you doing to alleviate climate change?"
Burning my rubbish in my new garden incinerator. I'm keeping the landfills empty so that the melting North Pole will have somewhere to go.
"What are you doing to alleviate climate change?"
Burning my rubbish in my new garden incinerator. I'm keeping the landfills empty so that the melting North Pole will have somewhere to go.
Posted by: Bemused on 10:42pm Tue 25 Mar 08
[quote]Professor John Whitelegg has worked for 25 years on transport, environment and sustainable development issues. This work includes direct experience of managing transport systems in the north of Scotland (air, ferry and bus), academic teaching and research at Lancaster University for 16 years, working with a German traffic ministry in Duesseldorf, mathematical modelling of freight flows, solving transport problems in Canada, India, Israel, Romania, Australia and projects in most European countries.[/quote]
Doesn't appear to have any qualification regarding climatology, and is as qualified in this as those who will tell you that it's nothing but a tax scam and a way to pick on the happy friendly motorist. It's all a natural cycle and nothing to worry about, you're just arbitrarily picking on people's lifestyles and freedoms, apparently.
Professor John Whitelegg has worked for 25 years on transport, environment and sustainable development issues. This work includes direct experience of managing transport systems in the north of Scotland (air, ferry and bus), academic teaching and research at Lancaster University for 16 years, working with a German traffic ministry in Duesseldorf, mathematical modelling of freight flows, solving transport problems in Canada, India, Israel, Romania, Australia and projects in most European countries.
Doesn't appear to have any qualification regarding climatology, and is as qualified in this as those who will tell you that it's nothing but a tax scam and a way to pick on the happy friendly motorist. It's all a natural cycle and nothing to worry about, you're just arbitrarily picking on people's lifestyles and freedoms, apparently.
Posted by: TW, Wrong Planet on 11:55pm Tue 25 Mar 08
TooRad - you will never hear the global warming scaremongers mention the Roman Warm Period or the Medieval Warm Period when temperatures were as warm or warmer and cannot be blamed on human activity, evidence borne out by papers by the likes [italic]McDermott et al[/italic] , 2001, [italic]Niggemann[/italic] 2003 or [italic]Holzhauzer[/italic] 2005. Nor point you in the direction of easy to read and understand articles like [italic]'The evidence against human causation of of global warming'[/italic] by Chris Towsey.
Why is that do you think ??
TooRad - you will never hear the global warming scaremongers mention the Roman Warm Period or the Medieval Warm Period when temperatures were as warm or warmer and cannot be blamed on human activity, evidence borne out by papers by the likes
McDermott et al , 2001,
Niggemann 2003 or
Holzhauzer 2005. Nor point you in the direction of easy to read and understand articles like
'The evidence against human causation of of global warming' by Chris Towsey.
Why is that do you think ??
Posted by: Mister Sheen, Right round the house on 9:36am Wed 26 Mar 08
[quote]What are you doing to alleviate climate change?[/quote]
I'm using old copies of the YCP to help light my woodburning stove/central heating system and to wrap kitchen scraps in before I take them out to the compost bin.
(my mum buys them, of course, I read the paper online! ;-)
I also use them to clean the glass tubes that are part of my solar hot water heating array (very good for windows too!)
Thank you YCP for helping me to remain 'green'!
What are you doing to alleviate climate change?
I'm using old copies of the YCP to help light my woodburning stove/central heating system and to wrap kitchen scraps in before I take them out to the compost bin.
(my mum buys them, of course, I read the paper online! ;-)
I also use them to clean the glass tubes that are part of my solar hot water heating array (very good for windows too!)
Thank you YCP for helping me to remain 'green'!
Posted by: Lt.Dobie, York-ish on 11:00am Wed 26 Mar 08
[quote][bold]TW[/bold] wrote:
TooRad - you will never hear the global warming scaremongers mention the Roman Warm Period or the Medieval Warm Period when temperatures were as warm or warmer and cannot be blamed on human activity, evidence borne out by papers by the likes [italic]McDermott et al[/italic] , 2001, [italic]Niggemann[/italic] 2003 or [italic]Holzhauzer[/italic] 2005. Nor point you in the direction of easy to read and understand articles like [italic]'The evidence against human causation of of global warming'[/italic] by Chris Towsey. Why is that do you think ??[/quote] Errm...because they didn't produce CO2 like we're doing and those 2 periods were due to other factors (which you haven't mentioned- did you miss that bit out?).
That was TooRad's point TW, armchair scientists. Can't anybody out there actually think that they (we) might be at fault on some issues?
We all pipe-on about MPs not accepting the blame for their c*ckups and how selfish they are and it being somebody elses fault...MPs are quite simply just people, dodging the blame like everyone else.
TW wrote:
TooRad - you will never hear the global warming scaremongers mention the Roman Warm Period or the Medieval Warm Period when temperatures were as warm or warmer and cannot be blamed on human activity, evidence borne out by papers by the likes McDermott et al , 2001, Niggemann 2003 or Holzhauzer 2005. Nor point you in the direction of easy to read and understand articles like 'The evidence against human causation of of global warming' by Chris Towsey. Why is that do you think ??
Errm...because they didn't produce CO2 like we're doing and those 2 periods were due to other factors (which you haven't mentioned- did you miss that bit out?).
That was TooRad's point TW, armchair scientists. Can't anybody out there actually think that they (we) might be at fault on some issues?
We all pipe-on about MPs not accepting the blame for their c*ckups and how selfish they are and it being somebody elses fault...MPs are quite simply just people, dodging the blame like everyone else.
Posted by: oli4uk, York on 12:57pm Wed 26 Mar 08
[quote]ou will never hear the global warming scaremongers mention the Roman Warm Period or the Medieval Warm Period when temperatures were as warm or warmer and cannot be blamed on human activity,[/quote]
The best parrt is the climate hockey stick graph used by the environmentalists (Disproven over two decades ago) also doesnt show these events, did they not happen?
[quote]Errm...because they didn't produce CO2 like we're doing and those 2 periods were due to other factors (which you haven't mentioned- did you miss that bit out?).[/quote]
The Co2 Levels also rose during these periods, at nearly the same rate. During warmer periods the earths natural plant life produce vasts amount of carbon dioxide (Human CO2 Emmisions account for aroun 3% of global emmisions, and only 5% of these effect global temprature.
The medieval and roman warm periods, and surprisingly outr modern era are all part of a solar cycle predicted 800 years ago.
The Carbon Footprint fantasists are actually harming the environmental cause by drawing focus away from some of the major polluting that has been going on, especially from places like China in recent years which could have devastating effects significant areas such as the great barrier reef.
Facts such as a global cooling period during the greatest western industrial growth period, not to mention the fact teh EArth was getting cooler from 1998 to 2007 (When a new period of scaremongering began on this issue after it was such an 80's hit) really seem to point out some serious flaws in the global warming theory, especially since the tempratures ahve been nowhere near teose predicted by any 'global warming environmental committee' in the last 28 years.
ou will never hear the global warming scaremongers mention the Roman Warm Period or the Medieval Warm Period when temperatures were as warm or warmer and cannot be blamed on human activity,
The best parrt is the climate hockey stick graph used by the environmentalists (Disproven over two decades ago) also doesnt show these events, did they not happen?
Errm...because they didn't produce CO2 like we're doing and those 2 periods were due to other factors (which you haven't mentioned- did you miss that bit out?).
The Co2 Levels also rose during these periods, at nearly the same rate. During warmer periods the earths natural plant life produce vasts amount of carbon dioxide (Human CO2 Emmisions account for aroun 3% of global emmisions, and only 5% of these effect global temprature.
The medieval and roman warm periods, and surprisingly outr modern era are all part of a solar cycle predicted 800 years ago.
The Carbon Footprint fantasists are actually harming the environmental cause by drawing focus away from some of the major polluting that has been going on, especially from places like China in recent years which could have devastating effects significant areas such as the great barrier reef.
Facts such as a global cooling period during the greatest western industrial growth period, not to mention the fact teh EArth was getting cooler from 1998 to 2007 (When a new period of scaremongering began on this issue after it was such an 80's hit) really seem to point out some serious flaws in the global warming theory, especially since the tempratures ahve been nowhere near teose predicted by any 'global warming environmental committee' in the last 28 years.
Posted by: TW, Wrong Planet on 1:38pm Wed 26 Mar 08
Thank you oli4uk - good to know that some people are of similar mind who are prepared to question and point to the glaring flaws in the argument. But as someone once said 'there is none so blind as they that won't see'
Thank you oli4uk - good to know that some people are of similar mind who are prepared to question and point to the glaring flaws in the argument. But as someone once said 'there is none so blind as they that won't see'
Posted by: Pleb, York on 3:32am Thu 27 Mar 08
I note the replies of the climate-change-denie
rs, but if they are wrong we won't get another chance to save civilisation by not polluting the earth and not using up natural resources. I would like to see population growth reduced by allowing a maximum of one child per family.
I note the replies of the climate-change-denie
rs, but if they are wrong we won't get another chance to save civilisation by not polluting the earth and not using up natural resources. I would like to see population growth reduced by allowing a maximum of one child per family.
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