Professor
Bill McGuire (Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre) gives a lunch hour lecture at
UCL in London on the dangers of melting polar ice on Thursday, 3rd March.
Summary
Whilst
the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change paints a pretty
bleak picture of the future, the scariest thing about it is that it may not be
scary enough. New research points not only to higher temperatures, bigger storms
and more floods, but to a world in which melting polar ice drowns coastal towns
ands cities across the planet, and the crust itself joins in with more
earthquakes, submarine landslides, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions. Is this a
world we wish to bequeath to our children and their children? If not, we may
have less than 10 years to do something about it.
