Welsh Climate Scientist hits the streets ahead of Copenhagen

8.00.00am GMT Mon 26th Oct 2009

A leading Welsh Climate Scientist Dr Tom Rippeth to take to the road with a series of illustrated talks, 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.

Commenting Dr Rippeth said: "This week Prime Minister Gordon Brown rightly described the forthcoming UN Copenhagen Climate Change Summit in December has the most important international meeting in a generation.

"In 2012 the Kyoto Protocol to prevent climate changes and global warming runs out. The conference in Copenhagen 2009 is the last time on government level before the climate agreement need to be renewed.

"Tough decisions will have to be made as to how to reduce the world's carbon foot print - decisions which will affect everybody's lives.

"The aim of the series of meeting I am holding (across North East Wales in the run up to Copenhagen) is to talk to people about the climate change we are seeing, and particular some of my own work in the High Arctic. The meetings will also allow me to set out some of the factors which I believe need to be considered in finding solutions."

Dr Rippeth's first meeting will be at Marford Community Centre on Thursday 29th October starting at 7.30pm. The meeting will be chaired by Baroness Walmsley, who is the Chair of Botanic Gardens Conservation International, a global conservation charity.

This meeting is open to all, and there is no charge for admission.

Tom is address at least 10 meetings between now and December including one in a pub (the Blue Bell Inn in Halkyn) several at Schools and Colleges, and to a number of local organisations.

About Tom Rippeth:

Tom has a PhD in Physical Oceanography and is a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society.

He 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.

Tom has published 50 papers in top international science journals.

Tom has been invited to speak at many top Oceanography and Climate conferences in the UK and the USA.

Read about Tom's science:

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/2009/01/14/bangor-

scientists-global-warming-warning-55578-22686934/

http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/news/story.aspx?id=308

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/7026498.stm

http://www.bangor.ac.uk/news/full.php?Id=305