BaCCaCC

2008-06-19T10:27:00.002Z

This blog will belong to BaCCaCC (Bradford and Calderdale Campaign against Climate Change), when it is formally set up. We are writing to all relevant environmental and other relevant groups in the area, inviting them to a founding meeting in Bradford, followed by another in Calderdale.

Top NASA Scientist speaks out on Climate Change

2006-02-20T19:56:00.000Z

James Hansen, top NASA scientist has grown fed up of being gagged by Bush's political appointees and has broken ranks to speak out on Climate Change and the need to cut emissions now. He also thinks that the limits to a 'safe' (there is no safe) rise in temperatures is much lower: 1 degree C, rather than 2.

Campaign against Climate Change: National planning meeting

2006-02-20T19:38:00.000Z

Tut, nearly five weeks and no post. Well, things have been happening at work and elsewhere which have taken my time. I've already posted this on my mailing list, but this is a slightly amended version.

Report Back from National Planning Meeting at Canterbury Hall, Cartwright Gardens, 11 February 2006, 12 noon to 5pm.
Present: about 40 activists, including Phil Thornhill, Jonathan Neale, Nick and Rosie on the platform.

First to speak was Phil Thornhill, the National Co-ordinator, who pointed out that this Thursday (16 February) was the anniversary of the Kyoto Treaty coming into force. He also pointed out that the main problem with Kyoto lay with the fact that the largest polluter, the United States, remained outside it. We all know that the Kyoto accord is inadequate etc., but it is the only game in town at the moment, and must be used as the basis for a widening and deepening agreement to cut emissions (I’m paraphrasing and writing partly from memory here, incidentally). The world’s most important obstacle to making progress on mitigating climate change is the American President, George W. Bush, who is backed by Exxon Mobil (Esso), who are the most aggressive corporate opponent of Kyoto.

Phil also pointed out that we made an impact on December 3rd with the Climate March, which was the largest environmental protest ever seen in this country. It was widely reported on television and in sections of the media, particularly the Independent newspaper, whether or not the climate has reached a ‘tipping point’, media and public opinion has. Since December the floodgates have opened for coverage of climate change. We have to build on that, and have a much bigger march next time, and there are indications we could have one an order of magnitude bigger, which will be explained better when I report what Jonathan said about his attendance at a Stop Climate Chaos meeting. The next Climate Summit is in Nairobi (we think) and will span Saturday 4 November, when we will have our demonstration.

This time CCC will be working alongside the umbrella group of NGOs Stop Climate Chaos, which includes many different organisations: FOE, Greenpeace, CAFOD, the RSPB and the WI among others (we’re part of it, too). Phil pointed out that there are two elements of complementarity between SCC as a whole, and the CCC separately. Firstly, SCC is more ‘conservative’ and ‘respectable’, while the CCC can be more ‘radical’ or ‘sharply critical’ of governments and individuals. We can say and do things that would risk alienating the more conservative supporters of the component organisation. Secondly, SCC is more ‘domestic’ in focus, concentrating on changing this government’s policy and behaviour, while CCC is capable, as we have demonstrated, of co-ordinating international protest.

The weakness of December was the lack of demonstrations in European capital cities. This can be addressed by making linkages at upcoming ESFs and we have laready made connections at WSFs at Caracas and in Africa.

Jonathan Neale spoke about his attendance at a SCC meeting, and of what the intentions of the umbrella organisation were. They are going to be mobilising in a big way for the November demo, and thus we have all their campaigning muscle and publicity machines behind it. They were exceedingly impressed with our ability to get 10,000 together on a shoestring budget, and they want us to do even better. Their vision of the campaign against climate change (small letters, not the organisation) is for it to become something like Make Poverty History, and intend the November march to be something like the Edinburgh demo in July, but not (as yet) quite so big. They envisage a 5-7 year battle, which will end in victory, which would comprise the writing into law of a 3% annual cut in emissions, which will result in a cut in emissions of 70% by 2050. This is like FOE’s Big Ask, which calls for such a law. The SCC have regular talks to Blair and Brown, and I suspect the other party leaders, although Jonathan didn’t actually say the latter.

The problem that Jonathan (and others) saw was this: Make Poverty History was successful in raising consciousness, less so in making a concrete difference on the ground (whatever narcissistic celebs may say). SCC mustn't be allowed to go the same way. If we're there in and among it to give it a more radical, or 'sharply critical', cutting edge then we may have a better chance.

There are strategic issues about the links between SCC and the CCC. They are concentrating on domestic law, while we focus on international agreements, but they bring a vast array of activists into our movement, and we should make sure they are mobilised. As we see Bush as the main villain (while keeping our eyes on Blair), we can make linkages with other movements. Two things wound Bush most: Iraq and Katrina.

In the discussion that followed many good points were made, and some suggestions put forward, only two or three I’ll mention. Firstly, that even 70 % cuts by 2050 weren’t good enough, George Monbiot had calculated that we needed 90% by 2030 to prevent the worst damage, so that SCC was being too conservative. Jonathan responded by saying that no other country had passed such a law, and if we got Britain to do it that would be a major breakthrough, even though we knew we had to go further later. There was a discussion about not just being against something, perhaps we should present a policy that was positive and Contraction and Convergence came up. It was pointed out that the CCC was comprised of people of many organisations and none, and that not all of them supported contraction and convergence, given some of its implications for standards of living, while recognising that global equity of emissions had to come about. Jonathan said he was against Contraction and Convergence, but for the contraction of emissions and global equity. Someone else, Suzanne Jeffreys, I think, said that if we nailed ourselves down to one policy we risked losing the support of some activists. We pretty much decided needed to concentrate on what we agreed on: binding international agreements, rather than argue in public about what divides us. Guy from Globalise Resistance agreed with that. He argued that we shouldn’t have a CCC position on nuclear power, for instance, even though most of us were against it. It would be good to campaign alongside people who thought it was the solution so we could argue with them about it. We can debate such matters in such meetings as this, however. Someone else pointed out that emissions aren’t the only issue, changes in land use can also upset the carbon cycle. If we cut down rainforest to grow biofuel, we destroy a major carbon sink and make global warming worse.

We had lunch and then split into groups based on birthday months (! to ensure randomness) and discussed how we build build for a National Day of Action later in the year. We decided we needed to get speakers to such as the WI, Churches, Mosques etc, in fact anyone who would have us. This can build for the Day of Action and raise consciousness for the Climate March on 4 November. We then discussed what we could do on this day. Should it be a co-ordinated national activity, or should local groups do their own thing. I suggested that one activity done in every location would probably have the most media impact. This seemed to have general agreement in the group, with the caveat that if there was a strong local issue already the focus of activity, then that could carry on. This was the general consensus at the plenary report back, later. As to what we should do, the meeting had a range of options: climate fairs, with organisations having stalls showing how they were campaigning against climate change. Lobbying of MPs. Some have signed the EDMs, let’s ask them for photocalls or joint press statements. Those that haven’t, let’s put pressure on them to do so. Phil, who was in our group despite not having a birthday in November or December (the group he was in decided they didn’t want both Phil and Jonathan in the same group!), suggested that on the model of the Stop the War Coalition we should have local marches in the build up to the national one, I liked that idea on the grounds that we had mobilised mainly young people in Bradford and they liked things that were exciting and noisy. But the problem was the focus. STWC is easy: bring the troops home. A bit harder for us. Should we march to an Esso station and have a meeting there, or to the town hall to ask them what they are doing about emissions? Perhaps we could do the latter, taking in Esso stations on the way! Perhaps we could finish with a meeting or a fair. This will be discussed further on the forums of the CCC, which I urge everyone to join in to.

We then broke up into interest groups, and I was in the political/trade union outreach group and we discussed the single most important thing that we did to build the demo last year. Actually, I now think it was the Climb against Climate Change, but I said my passing the motion at our NATFHE branch. This was important, but its effects on our coffers were retrospective, so to speak, while the Climb raised over £400, half of our eventual total. The most effective city in our area was Sheffield, which sent three coaches, with a reporter from the local press on one of them! They said personal contact was the most important thing. Go and talk to people. Local libraries have lists of organisations that need speakers. Go through it and offer ourselves is the only way. You can then leaflet in the street, and put the message through people’s doors. The people from Sheffield were great, and I gave them my email address before I went.

We didn’t start early enough last year, and that was mainly my fault, so we’re going to start very early this year. Bradford CCC is already about £60 in credit, thanks to some late donations, and my bucket collection at a (pitifully small and inquorate) union meeting of around 40 people. Steve Wilkinson (the Chair) said we could collect again at a bigger one. I aim to at least match Sheffield, if not do better (we probably won’t catch up, it’s a bigger city than ours, anyway, but we can try).

The CCC produced a draft mission statement and proposed new national structure, which will undoubtedly be amended, although were passed provisionally with some debate. These are the other attachments.

Lovelock and Nuclear Power

2006-01-18T11:18:00.000Z

James Lovelock, in his new book that will be out later in the year, The Revenge of Gaia, has suggested that it is probably already too late to stop climate change, that by the end of the century we are probably going to exceed the Palaeocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum that led to the extinction of 95% of the world's species 54 million years ago. This event was an 8 degrees Celsius rise in temperature that occurred in just a few years, probably triggered by the melting of methane hydrates beneath the sea bed releasing billions of tons of methane into the atmosphere all at once (methane being many times as powerful a greenhouse gas than CO2).

Lovelock is best known for his Gaia hypothesis, which states that the planet is a self regulating system, that planet and biota (the sum of all the lifeforms on the earth) interact in a way that keeps the earth fit for life, of which process the carbon cycle is a major component. The extra dimension that the human emissions have given to this cycle since industrialisation (the burning of first coal then oil, thus releasing billions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere that was previously underground) means that the feedback mechanisms that keep the earth's climate fit for life, now work against us. Positive feedback mechanisms ensue. Melting sea ice due to global warming in the arctic means that white reflective ice is replacing by dark absorbing ocean, thus heating up the planet more and melting more ice. Melting peat bogs in Siberia release more methane into the atmosphere, which heats the planet up more and melts more peat bogs. As the planet heats up, plants themselves (our major carbon 'sink') give out more CO2 and CH4 (methane), which heats the planet up more. Read the full story in the excellent Scotsman.

Lovelock is a well-known advocate of nuclear power for mitigating, if not solving, the problem of climate change, and is a Conservative. However, Zac Goldsmith who is part of the Conservative's Quality of Life Policy Review, has gone against majority party opinion by referring to nuclear power as an 'option of last resort'. I spoke to my MP, Philip Davies (Con., Shipley) last week and he was very concerned about climate change, but was keeping an open mind about nuclear power, like David Cameron himself.

Kevin Anderson, a researcher in the Hadley Centre for the Study of Climate Change, is dismissive of the nuclear option, which could only ever be a minor contributor to emissions cuts. He wants to see far more investment in renewables and in minimising energy waste by better insulation of houses, etc. Read the full story here.

Sharp increase in carbon levels in atmosphere means global warming will speed up

2006-01-15T16:01:00.000Z

An article by the Independent on Sunday's Environmental Editor, Geoffrey Lean, in today's Indie tells us that measurements of the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere, which is done by the US government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration every year on Mauna Loa, have shown a sharp rise in the past year. In January 2005 they were about 376 parts per million(ppm), on Friday they hovered around 379. That's an increase of 3 ppm in a year. In the 1950s, when the measures were first taken, the average annual increase was about 1ppm, in the 1990s it was 1.6 ppm. Last year the increase had been about 1.8 ppm over the previous year, so this is a whopping increase. The Indie doesn't have a free archive, so check the story at USA Today.

From 1900-2000, the Earth heated up, on average, by 1 degree Centigrade, most of which was due to human carbon emissions. Now the rate of growth of emissions is speeding up, so will climate change, and its catastrophic effects, which have in the last year included the record-breaking (in number and intensity) hurricane season (Tropical Storm Zeta lasted into January, a full five weeks after the official end of the season), the first Atlantic cyclone to make landfall in Europe in recorded history (Tropical Storm Vince), and the accelerated melting of Arctic Sea Ice, permafrost in North America and Siberia (threatening a giant methane burp from a previously frozen peat bog), and the Greenland ice cap. There has also been drought in Southern and Eastern Africa, and unseasonable cold weather on the Indian subcontinent. Extinctions are progressing at a rate unseen for millions of years, a third of amphibian species are imminently under threat.

Why this sudden increase? Two words maybe: China and India? The fact that these two countries are developing rapidly, and in the same dirty way that we did, using their vast reserves of cheap coal, means that we in the developed North have got to get our act together, and first cut our emissions, then help them to switch to cleaner technologies. But what does the world's biggest (per capita) polluter do? Why, they join with the world's second biggest per capita polluter and host the 'Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate' in the latter's back yard. This includes China and India as well as the US and Australia (for 'twas they), which sounds like a good thing, but this 'alternative to Kyoto' sets only voluntary targets and says that the use of fossil fuels is a reality for this century. This is denial on a grand scale!

Climate Change Sceptic Converted

2006-01-10T10:02:00.000Z

Kerry Emmanuel, who is a hurricane specialist, and has been to say the least cautious on anthropogenic global warming is now saying that he has changed his mind after the disastrous and unprecedented hurricane season (we have got up to Tropical Storm Zeta recently, weeks after the season 'officially' ended). He says that New Orleans was relatively lucky, and he definitely would not live anywhere near the coast! Read the full interview in today's New York Times here.

Effects of climate change on wildlife

2005-12-24T11:39:00.000Z

Two stories from the Scotsman this week. On Tuesday it reported that global warming was threatening whales and dolphins, by disrupting food supplies. The North Atlantic Right Whale has disappeared from Scotland's West Coast this summer. Read the full story here. Meanwhile today it reports that the Nuthatch, a bird previously restricted to England and Wales, has started to breed in southern Scotland for the first time, as the temperature rises. Read about that here.

There's also a very good review article in the New York Review of Books by radical environmentalist Bill McKibben, concerned with the impacts of climate change. It's entitled The Coming Meltdown. Read it here.

Bad news: carbon offsets and global dimming

2005-12-23T19:20:00.000Z

If, like me, you want to be able to fly and still feel like you're saving the world, then you might be tempted to purchase "carbon offsets" (paying to reduce carbon emissions in other parts of the world to match those you're making in your hedonistic activity). But these might have environmental impacts of their own. See Guardian article here. Meanwhile the Chelsea of the carbon emissions premier league just keeps zooming away with the title. The US of A keeps telling us that, despite not signing up to Kyoto, it's reducing emissions faster than those hypocritical, po-faced losers who did. Turns out that's a lie.

The worst news of the day turns out to be that one of our environmental success stories is still bad news. Visible pollutants have both caused respiratory diseases and blocked off radiation from the sun (global dimming). Our success in tackling these (partly regulation, partly changes in productive techniques) results in us letting in more solar radiation, which is being trapped by the greenhouse effect. Global warming might be happening faster than we thought! Read it here.

Articles from today's press

2005-12-21T15:50:00.000Z

Today's Science page in the good old Grauniad has all 3 stories related to climate change. Firstly, there's the melting permafrost, as reported yesterday. Secondly, if you thought you were greener on a motorbike, tough! You actually are less efficient than those four-wheeled foulers. Thirdly, Christmas is the pits, when it comes to emissions anyway! The most problematic things are those winking Santas and reindeer, but cooking a turkey for about a day and a half ain't good for the planet either. And think of all the heat you lose when you open the door to the Carol singers! Bah, humbug! I was going to wish you all a happy Christmas, too!

Also, there's an article available for downloading on the RUSI (Royal United Services Institute) website which takes climate change as an established fact and, as is its raisson d'etre, goes on to analyse its possible contribution to major conflicts (a bit like the Pentagon did a year or two ago). It's here.

Permafrost may disappear by 2100 say scientists

2005-12-20T08:02:00.000Z

Well, the title says it all! Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, USA have warned that there will be at least a 90% reduction in the Arctic permafrost. This has massive implications for ecosystems in the Arctic, and may have the side-effect of releasing much methane from frozen peat bogs. Methane is over twenty times as powerful a green house gas as CO2, and thus another positive feedback mechanism is set in motion. Read the full story in Science Daily, and on Mongabay.com.

More signs of global warming

2005-12-18T12:28:00.000Z

Hi all

The pictures of the 'Bradford Posse' are on the CaCC's national website. Check the link here.

The Godard Institute for Space Studies (part of NASA) have released their temperature results for 2005. They show it as slightly warmer than the previous record holder 1998, which was given an artificial boost by a tropical El Nino event of record warmth. There was no El Nino event this year, and so it's even more significant. Read the full story here.

Climate change is threatening indiginous wildlife. Puffins, and other seabirds, face being wiped out by alien shrubs invading and choking the offshore islands they live upon. Read the full story in the Observer here.

According to the Sunday Times today, there is evidence that polar bears are drowning, as the iceshelf melts under them. Read that story here.

Victory in Montreal (Well, for now anyway)

2005-12-11T08:32:00.000Z

Well, it looks like we just about won in Montreal. The US wanted to wreck the entire thing. Their delegate arrogantly walked out on the last evening, but was shamed into going back in when the rest of the world (and American public opinion) expressed disgust. The Canadian government even bussed in Clinton to do his "World Statesman" routine and lecture the Bushoes about their responsibilities. Bush is damaged, largely due to the Iraq debacle, and is therefore more vulnerable than ever before. The Republicans will get cleaned out in the House mid-term elections and that leaves more space for US movement. The demonstrations, especially the large one in Montreal but also all the others around the world, undoubtedly played their part. So, it was certainly worth getting up at some unearthly hour and getting to London for one of the most fun demos I've been on. Bradford and Calderdale people, well done!

The full story of Montreal is in today's Observer here, and here. There's some food for thought from South Africa here.

And if you want to find out how climate change will affect our region, check out the Yorkshire Post, here.

P.S. There's definitely a chocolate cake in it now for my students!

150,000 deaths blamed on global warming

2005-12-10T10:13:00.000Z

According to a WHO report, a conservative estimate of those who died in the year 2000 as a direct result of global warming, either through droughts, heat waves, flooding or the increase in communicable disease due to warmer climates, totalled 150,000. Read the full story in yesterday's Toronto Star here. This year is also the hottest, driest and stormiest year ever, read the full story here.

More news on thermohaline circulation stopping

2005-12-09T07:11:00.000Z

A study presented at the Montreal talks suggests that there is a 70% chance that in the next 200 years the thermohaline circulation, which powers the Gulf Stream and keeps the West of Europe (including us!) warmer that we should be at our latitude, will stop. The effects will still be collossal even if it doesn't stop, but just weakens, and they will be felt much earlier than that. Read the story here.

Locally. It is still not clear what Bradford Council is doing about its obligations to cut emissions under the Nottingham Declaration, to which it is a signatory. Watch this space.

More pictures of the Bradford posse!

2005-12-08T12:41:00.000Z

Almost without comment. Don't forget to fill in a standing order, even if it's only for a quid (this is for national funds), so we can have an even bigger demonstration next year.

Yesterday in London....

2005-12-04T15:24:00.000Z

Above are some pictures from the 'Bradford posse's' (copyright some impressed unknown woman demonstrator) day in London protesting about the Climate Crisis. The papers are saying that 10,000 people spent the day in 'a party mood' in London yesterday, at the Campaign against Climate Change's Climate march. We in Bradford took down about forty activists, including large contingents of students from the College and the University, had a great time and got back (after about sixteen hours away) at around 11 pm. The Bradford College contingent wrote our own chants on the way down, many of which were adopted by large sections of the march. These included:

Toxic Texan...
Boil him in oil!

and (to be done in a call and response repeat like the drill-instructor thing from Full Metal Jacket!):

Melting ice and hurricanes!
Bush and Blair have got no brains!
No gulf stream, a new ice age!
Bush and Blair must leave the stage!

very popular also was (Queen-style):

You got oil on your face, a big disgrace,
We're going to stop you frying this place!
We will, we will stop you!
We will, we will stop you!

and:

One solution...
Less pollution!
Right decision...
Cut emissions!

There were more, but space does not allow. Thank you in particular to Anneesa, Fozia, Muniba, Ruby, Shamila, Caroline and Umit for their contributions, and to Maike for providing (and decorating) the balloons! Rizwan, Sean and Farhan also helped. There were also some fantastic people from Calderdale and a large contingent of mainly Peace Studies students from Bradford University. Graham's megaphone work was second to none. The coach wouldn't have even been there without Lois and Andy's rather damp climb with us up Pen-y-ghent!!

One of the young women was threatened with arrest under the Terrorism Act for using a megaphone near Number 10!!!!

It is noticable that while the Independent, including its Sunday variant gave great prominence to the world-wide protest, the Guardian and Observer ignored it. Write letters, threatening to, or even actually saying you will, cancel the paper if it refuses to take this vital issue seriously.

We more or less paid for the coach and previous public meeting, but are still £55 light. This will be rectified when I collect at my next union meeting (NATFHE), in the meantime a hole has been burned in my pocket! If your union isn't involved please try to pass a motion at your next meeting. There's a model one here (scroll to the bottom).

We need standing orders. I've sent forms out to all the people on the list. But you can also get them from here.

The next lot of protests/activities are probably going to be local. Watch this space!

still coach tickets left

2005-12-02T09:06:00.000Z

These are £12 for waged and £8 for students/unwaged. Don't miss out on a chance to shout at 10 Downing Street and the US embassy! Coach leaves from outside The Old Building, Bradford College, Great Horton Road, Bradford BD7 1AY. If you already have a ticket, tell your friends! Tickets available from me or Bradford University Students' Union office. If you've been reading the papers this week, you know you really should...

The day after the day after tomorrow

2005-12-01T08:46:00.000Z

Well, the Times this morning has an article on the weakening of the thermohaline circulation, which may well pitch Europe into an ice age. Read the full story here. Also in New Scientist here. I showed the film to my students last month and told them, "well, it can't really happen like that!"

Europe hit badly by climate change

2005-11-30T12:57:00.000Z

Europe will be badly hit by climate change. Drought in the Southern countries, melting glaciers in Switzerland and flooding in Germany and the Low countries are among the adverse effects of global warming as detailed by the European Environmental agency. Learn more here. Meanwhile, the US has ruled out doing any more to combat it. Read more about that here

Further proof that Blair is the enemy of the climate

2005-11-26T08:00:00.000Z

The UK is not reaching its emissions targets under Kyoto. Yet Blair wants to emit more carbon dioxide. The UK government is pushing for the EU to allow British companies to increase their emissions. The full story is in Building For a Better Future here

Public Meeting and Further Action

2005-11-25T11:12:00.000Z

Bradford Campaign Against Climate Change had a small but perfectly formed meeting at Bradford Central Library last night, which included representatives of Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, the Green Party, the Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Science and Respect. We discussed the problems facing us and our strategies for building the movement in the months after the Climate March. There were disagreements, which were aired in a calm and friendly way and did not greatly affect our decisions about further action.

We decided that our first course of action should be, under the idea of Think Global, Act Local, to lobby Bradford Council to go further in cutting its own emissions and those of the area for which it is responsible. The Council is a signatory to the Nottingham Declaration, which binds it to such action. Graham Love (Green Party councillor) said he would put down a written question about this, to which the council should respond at the full council meeting a week on Tuesday, when he would have the chance to ask a supplementary. We may demonstrate at the next council meeting if their answers fall short of our reasonable expectations.

We also decided that we should get out more material in languages other than English in our area and leaflet mosques and temples. We should also have small and quite informal meetings in community centres and similar buildings. If you have any ideas for further action add comments to this blog.

May I urge you all to write letters to the local newspapers highlighting the march, and pointing out that many people in Bradford, including quite a lot of young people, are very concerned about this issue.

Still tickets left at the Students' Union for the coach. I've sold all mine!

The Respect conference passed several motions on climate change and nuclear power last weekend. Read about them here. If any other organisations have conferences which pass such motions, please feel free to include news about them in the comments.

Climate Change Meeting Thursday 24 7:30 pm

2005-11-22T12:31:00.000Z

MEETING ROOM 1: BRADFORD CENTRAL LIBRARY (Meeting Room 1) 7:30 PM

Speakers:

Brian Collier (Bradford Campaign against Climate Change and RESPECT)

Cllr Martin Love (Green Party)

Fazlun Khalid (IFEES)

Chris Mackin (Greenpeace)

Coach from Bradford

2005-11-18T16:39:00.000Z

We have a 53 seat coach from Bradford, leaving at 7am on December 3 2005 from outside the Richmond Building on Great Horton Road (just up from the Bradford College Old Building). Tickets are £12 (£8 unwaged) from myself or the Bradford University Students' Union. It will cost £700 (and we have £300), so these are economic ticket prices, but I'd still like to raise some more. Suggestions?

Bradford Campaign Against Climate Change

2005-11-17T20:41:00.000Z

This will be the news blog of Bradford Campaign Against Climate Change, created by Brian Collier, but I hope carried on by everyone!

News:

Climb against Climate Change, by Bradford College staff and students, made it up Pen-y-Ghent on Saturday 12 November and made over £300 in sponsorship. We will book a coach soon.

I will shortly be opening a bank account under the name of Bradford Campaign against Climate Change

There will be a public meeting about climate change at Bradford Central Library on November 24 at 7:30pm. Speakers from the Green Party, Greenpeace and Respect are confirmed. I hope more are to come.