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SCIENCE EVENT
5:15pm
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SCIENCE EVENT
2:45pm
Engineering the
Climate
Panel Discussion
St Wulfram’s Church
Ticket: £4
Duration: 1hr
Dr Hugh Hunt, University of Cambridge,
and Dr Matthew Watson, University of
Bristol, and scientist colleagues involved in
the climate engineering debate in the UK.
What are the implications for the different
climate engineering theories and
possible experimentation? The panel
discussion will examine those theories and
experimentation and discuss whether they
are even too dangerous to contemplate!
Researchers have suggested
geoengineering technologies such as
dissolving mountains and putting remains
in the sea and, less dramatically, perhaps,
filing the ocean with iron filings to stimulate
algae blooms.
Perhaps then, we are right to be revolted
and alarmed at such desperate measures,
potentially the clearest indication that we
have failed as planetary stewards.
The session will include filmed extracts
from other contributors.
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PARTICIPATION EVENT
5.45pm
Floods, heatwaves, storms, even the odd
hurricane ... 2014 marks the 60 year
anniversary of the first weather forecast on
BBC Television.
Fulbeck Bread,
Oldershaws Brewery and
Long Clawson Dairy
BBC Head of Weather Liz Howell and
colleagues discuss how reporting the
weather on TV has become an ever more
challenging business.
Grantham Guildhall
Ticket: £7, Concessions £5
Duration: 1hr 30mins
Reporting the Weather Lincolnshire
Liz Howell BBC Head of Weather Ploughman’s –
the Science of
St Wulfram’s Church
Free
Lincolnshire food
Duration: 45mins
and beer
In that time it has gone from early forecasts
and simple graphics (and memorable
moments such as Michael Fish’s confident
prediction in 1987 that there would be no
hurricane) to the recent launch of the BBC
Weather app, with five million downloads in
its first few months.
Their output now ranges from global
reports to extremely detailed local weather
reports and predictions.
Global weather phenomena are up there
with the top news bulletins.
One thing is for sure; the UK audience
is obsessed with weather, but it remains
a very difficult country to forecast. One
man’s snow is another man’s pleasure;
many people are glued to the forecast
affecting their daily lives both for pleasure
and essential business.
Join Liz and colleagues to hear about
the role of BBC weather today, the skill
sets required and how producers and
presenters combine to get the weather
stories out.
Sample the very best local food and
drink with a celebration of traditional
ploughman’s. Heading the menu are
Long Clawson Dairy, Fulbeck Bread and
Oldershaws Brewery with opportunities to
sample their produce. Speakers include
Linda Hewett, expert bread maker from
Fulbeck Bread, Oldershaws Brewery, a
successful micro-brewery and producers
of bespoke beers such as St Pancras
brew sold in St Pancras Hotel, and Long
Clawson Dairy - cheesemakers for over
a century. Other exhibitors include The
Trickling Tap, With Chocolate, The Savvy
Food Company, Grantham Gingerbread,
Indulgence Delivered and The Stamford
Deli.
Reflections:
In the 1600s weak beer was the staple
drink with meals. Times may have changed
with beer drinking but bread and cheese
has remained a staple of our diet through
the centuries.
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