academe and climate change

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Today there's a feature about 97% of academic papers agreeing that climate change is manmade, here http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/may/16/climate-change-scienceofclimatechange

to which you can add your own questions and reflections.

Just a reminder that one thing humanity CAN do is start replacing trees in every possible site, but especially along seaboards, to anchor the shoreline. Wide bands of trees, planted by the acre, just inland actually set up conditions that help regulate rainfall. All along riversides we will need to anchor topsoil far better, restoring watermeadows. Rivers will be violently in spate thanks to more storms, & they need to be accommodated within flood plains as our ancestors knew full well.

We need not leave it to others to grow the trees, but each of us start saving and potting on saplings, even if we have limited space. They will be wanted en masse in another decade - no need to plant them into the earth just yet. Please include all sorts of ordinary 'weed' trees that start off accidentally in your garden borders and paving, such as sycamore, ash, holly, elder, hazel, willow.