It seems like climate change fever is hotting up (no pun intended). In the last week, there has been a deluge of information and opinion about what’s going to happen and what the expected rise in temperatures are etc etc. There are still the doubters out there - I watched a broadcast from ‘Live with Larry King’ and there was a guy who thought that temperature rises would be a good thing and that global systems (such as the Atlantic drift) were driven by wind and not by temperature.

The UK government today announced that Al Gore’s ‘The Inconvenient Truth’ would be distributed to all english schools as global warming will be taught as part of the national curriculum. This is due to the clarity of the message and the scientific basis of the arguments put forward. Hopefully, seeing this film can influence a generation.

In other news today, BBC lunchtime news had a major section on global warming and interviewed one of their reporters (known as ‘Ethical Man’) who went on a vegan diet during January to examine the implications of diet on global warming. There will be full report on Newsnight later tonight. An interesting comment slipped out from the presenter, who, after stating he had been on a vegan diet, said “… the rest of us are not quite ready yet to go that far…” - the key word was ‘yet’ - in other words, some people are actually accepting that this is something many more people may have to do in the future! Bring it on I say!

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