I have just enjoyed listening to and watching this pair of lectures from the
Royal Society on the web. (There are actually two Tims giving talks.) I think
everyone would find them interesting, not just those worried about global
warming. Bill Giles gets a mention, and Piers Corbyn has a walk on part
in the question time at the end.
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=3135

Cheers, Alastair.

"Alastair McDonald" k wrote
in message ...
I have just enjoyed listening to and watching this pair of lectures from
the
Royal Society on the web. (There are actually two Tims giving talks.) I
think
everyone would find them interesting, not just those worried about global
warming. Bill Giles gets a mention, and Piers Corbyn has a walk on part
in the question time at the end.
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=3135

Cheers, Alastair.



Alastair I can't get the video to play. Do you have to be a member ? If so,
stop showing off it doesn't become you.

"Alastair McDonald" k
wrote in message ...
I have just enjoyed listening to and watching this pair of lectures from
the
Royal Society on the web. (There are actually two Tims giving talks.) I
think
everyone would find them interesting, not just those worried about global
warming. Bill Giles gets a mention, and Piers Corbyn has a walk on part
in the question time at the end.
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=3135

Cheers, Alastair.



Alastair I can't get the video to play. Do you have to be a member ? If
so, stop showing off it doesn't become you.


I can get only the High Bandwidth Windows Media player to work even though
the link to the check page works with both Real and Windows Media Player.

Bill

"lawrence Jenkins" wrote in message
...

"Alastair McDonald" k wrote
in message ...
I have just enjoyed listening to and watching this pair of lectures from
the
Royal Society on the web. (There are actually two Tims giving talks.) I
think
everyone would find them interesting, not just those worried about global
warming. Bill Giles gets a mention, and Piers Corbyn has a walk on part
in the question time at the end.
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=3135

Cheers, Alastair.



Alastair I can't get the video to play. Do you have to be a member ? If so,
stop showing off it doesn't become you.

There are four options depending on whether you have Broadband or not, and
whether you want to use Windows Media Player or Real Time. The Realtime
player is the one used to play BBC radio news items and video clips.

If you don't have either of those click on "checker page to decide which
player to use" and you can download one of the players from that page.

BTW Although I have Freeserve Broadband I actually used Real Player low
bandwidth because the high bandwith was breaking up.

HTH,

Cheers, Alastair.

Alastair McDonald wrote:

I have just enjoyed listening to and watching this pair of lectures from
the
Royal Society on the web. (There are actually two Tims giving talks.) I
think everyone would find them interesting, not just those worried about
global
warming. Bill Giles gets a mention, and Piers Corbyn has a walk on part
in the question time at the end.
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=3135

Cheers, Alastair.


One thing that wasn't addressed (if it was I missed it) was the potential
for crop evolution to occur. As (if) temperatures rise, natural selection
will favour crops that can survive in those conditions, so is it possible
that in 100yrs time we will have wheat and barley that has evolved to grow
quite happily in the changed climate?


--
Brian Wakem

Alastair McDonald wrote:

There are four options depending on whether you have Broadband or not, and
whether you want to use Windows Media Player or Real Time.


I watched the wmv in totem.


--
Brian Wakem

I have just enjoyed listening to and watching this pair of lectures from
the
Royal Society on the web. (There are actually two Tims giving talks.) I
think
everyone would find them interesting, not just those worried about global
warming. Bill Giles gets a mention, and Piers Corbyn has a walk on part
in the question time at the end.
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=3135

Cheers, Alastair.



Alastair I can't get the video to play. Do you have to be a member ? If
so, stop showing off it doesn't become you.


Lawrence

Firefox doesn't play the video but IE seems to be OK for me.

Thanks for the link Alistair - very interesting. It was the first time I've
seen Brian Hoskins since I attended his lectures at Reading Uni about, er,
rather a long time ago. Sadly, I couldn't bring myself to watch until Piers
appeared though.

Martin
Guernsey

"Brian Wakem" wrote in message
...
Alastair McDonald wrote:

I have just enjoyed listening to and watching this pair of lectures from
the
Royal Society on the web. (There are actually two Tims giving talks.) I
think everyone would find them interesting, not just those worried about
global
warming. Bill Giles gets a mention, and Piers Corbyn has a walk on part
in the question time at the end.
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=3135

Cheers, Alastair.


One thing that wasn't addressed (if it was I missed it) was the potential
for crop evolution to occur. As (if) temperatures rise, natural selection
will favour crops that can survive in those conditions, so is it possible
that in 100yrs time we will have wheat and barley that has evolved to grow
quite happily in the changed climate?

The problem is that if yields drop in a world with a growing population,
there will be famine and we cannot wait for crop evolution to occur.
OTOH we may be able to use genetic modification to get new varieties in
the time scales needed.

But if we employ genetic modification now, and get a universal best seed
which is used through out the world like Coca-Cola, then we could easily
end up with a disaster. Relying on only one crop was what caused the Irish
Potato Famine!

Cheers, Alastair.

"Bill Perry" wrote in message
...
"Alastair McDonald" k
wrote in message ...
I have just enjoyed listening to and watching this pair of lectures from
the
Royal Society on the web. (There are actually two Tims giving talks.) I
think
everyone would find them interesting, not just those worried about global
warming. Bill Giles gets a mention, and Piers Corbyn has a walk on part
in the question time at the end.
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=3135

Cheers, Alastair.



Alastair I can't get the video to play. Do you have to be a member ? If
so, stop showing off it doesn't become you.


I can get only the High Bandwidth Windows Media player to work even though
the link to the check page works with both Real and Windows Media Player.

It may be that the site is overloaded by too many people from usw trying it.

OTOH I have posted that site on sci.environment as well, so you may have to
wait until tomorrow morning when all those Yanks have gone to bed :-(

Cheers, Alastair.

"Alastair McDonald" k wrote
in message ...

"lawrence Jenkins" wrote in message
...

"Alastair McDonald" k
wrote
in message ...
I have just enjoyed listening to and watching this pair of lectures from
the
Royal Society on the web. (There are actually two Tims giving talks.)
I
think
everyone would find them interesting, not just those worried about
global
warming. Bill Giles gets a mention, and Piers Corbyn has a walk on
part
in the question time at the end.
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=3135

Cheers, Alastair.



Alastair I can't get the video to play. Do you have to be a member ? If
so,
stop showing off it doesn't become you.

There are four options depending on whether you have Broadband or not, and
whether you want to use Windows Media Player or Real Time. The Realtime
player is the one used to play BBC radio news items and video clips.

If you don't have either of those click on "checker page to decide which
player to use" and you can download one of the players from that page.

BTW Although I have Freeserve Broadband I actually used Real Player low
bandwidth because the high bandwith was breaking up.

HTH,

Cheers, Alastair.



Alastair, I'm using 2mb broadband, real player and windows media player and
it still doesn't work!
How are we supposed to trust these people on Global Warming when they can't
run a website properly :-)

You don't get these problems with Fred Singer's site or World Climate
Report. ;-)