The impact of climate change on people in the Marlborough community will come under the spotlight at a seminar organised by Citizens’ Climate Lobby UK on Tuesday, October 23.
For this Climate Change in Marlborough and the World seminar a well-known local amateur weatherman will join a Marlborough-based professor of earth sciences to explore climate change on our doorstep – and as a global issue.
Eric Gilbert, who has been recording the weather daily in Marlborough for 34 years and provides monthly reports to marlborough.news, will talk about the trends he has noticed at a very local level.
Professor David Waltham of Royal Holloway University earth sciences department, teaches students how to look for oil. Yet as a scientist he knows the devastating contribution fossil fuels have made to climate change.
He has developed a model which demonstrates the time we have left to bring down greenhouse gas emissions if we are to meet the Paris Agreement of no more than 1.5 degree global rise in temperature.
After the presentations, Citizens’ Climate Lobby UK committee member Louisa Davison will discuss the global organisation’s solution of a carbon fee and dividend, where carbon from fossil fuels is taxed and the revenue is divided equally among UK citizens.
Louisa realises that living in Wiltshire climate change can seem a distant problem: “In Britain, with our wonderfully temperate climate, it’s sometimes easy to ignore climate change as we don’t suffer the extreme storms and droughts of the equatorial countries.”
“The seminar will explore the impact climate change is having on our community, as well as looking at the well-documented worldwide effects. Citizens’ Climate Lobby thinks the problem is too big for small solutions – we lobby the government to implement a pollution tax which will also protect the purse of the average person.”
Climate Change in Marlborough and the World, which is free to attend, takes place at the Enterprise Centre at St John’s School, Marlborough on Tuesday 23 October from 7.30pm. It will also be streamed live. To book a free ticket or to see how to access the talk online, visit citizensclimatelobby.uk/events