Reminder: Donna in Edinburgh

Just a reminder to readers in central Scotland that Donna Laframboise is speaking at the City Chambers in Edinburgh tonight. It's free!

Details here.

Comments

[Athelstan.]

A lady with a good heart and her eloquence flows, I shall be there in spirit if not bodily - Edinburgh is more than 400 miles from where I live but truly I would be there in other circumstances, because Donna is one girl you should all listen to.

[Alan Bates]

Ditto everything Athelstan said but I'm closer - "only" 307.2 miles.

[Cameron Rose]

I'm hoping we will be able to video the event, or part of the event. If that works we will let you know where you can view at a letter date.

[Dumfoonert]

OT but check the grid monitoring site http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

[MikeHaseler]

I've only just heard about this today. I was trying to work out how I might have missed the announcement, but I can't find the URL. Could anyone tell me where I should have been looking?

[HaroldW]

MikeHaseler -
Donna's trip was announced on Donna's blog, and here at BH.

[Fay Tuncay]

I hope the meeting goes well, and look forward to the video.

[dougieh]

My old stomping ground, alas to far for me to return at present.

have a drink for me Bish & Donna, all the best :-(

[lapogus]

I couldn't make the meeting last night but suggested a friend who lives not so far from Edinburgh attend - this is his summary:

Went along as suggested, Ms Laframboise was excellent - very calm, measured and persuasive. Nothing I didn't already know about the IPCC and its generally political / ideological rather than scientific orientation, but some interesting factual details nonetheless.

Donna's best comment came at the end when she said that the Climate Change movement is demanding that trillions should be spent to avoid the hypothetical suffering of children in the future, whilst ignoring the fact that 6 million under-fives die every year right now of preventable causes. Furthermore (and this is my own extension of the the theme) the industrial and general C02-related processes which the IPCC et al wish to ban are the very ones needed to lift these suffering children out of poverty, starvation, disease etc.

Anyway all-in-all an interesting and worthwhile evening, cheers for the heads-up.

Thanks to Cameron Rose for organising this meeting and the dinner with Donna on Friday. I get the feeling quite a few people in Scotland will have been gently persuaded that all is not as it seems in the IPCC, or with climate science generally.

[Mike Jackson]

... Climate Change movement is demanding that trillions should be spent to avoid the hypothetical suffering of children in the future, whilst ignoring the fact that 6 million under-fives die every year right now of preventable causes. Furthermore ... the industrial and general C02-related processes which the IPCC et al wish to ban are the very ones needed to lift these suffering children out of poverty, starvation, disease etc.

Thank you, lapogus, for passing on this very perceptive observation. It sums up the irony of the IPCC's position perfectly.

[Orson]

Good and gratifying to read! Thanks for the friendly report, lapogus.