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SUMMARY:March Café: Building for a Warmer Future Professor Peter F. Smith
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 ydsTSB:\n\nWe need to change the way
  we build homes\, towns and cities 
 now. Why the urgency?Because globa
 l warming is picking up speed and 
 the villain is carbon dioxide.\n\nAt
 mospheric carbon will almost certa
 inly increase and raise the global
  averagetemperature to well beyond
  the 2C tipping point into irrever
 sible climatechange.\n\nExperts like
  James Hansen in the US and Lord T
 urner in the UK warn thatwe should
  begin preparing now for a 4C rise
  in average temperature. This tran
 slates to a 13C rise in Siberia wi
 th its massive stores of methane.\n
 The Copenhagen COP15 was an almost
  total disaster. It failed in its 
 primary aimwhich was to get the ma
 jor polluting countries to agree a
  cap on their CO2emissions.\n\nThe r
 eversion of the State of Massachus
 etts to the Republicans dealta mas
 sive blow to the President\, placin
 g the Climate Change Bill in jeopa
 rdy.Without a firm CO2 abatement c
 ommitment from the US\, which produ
 ces 25% ofworld emissions\, all oth
 er major polluters are off the hoo
 k.\n\nBuildings last hundreds of yea
 rs. Many homes in Sheffield are ap
 proaching 200years old. Buildings 
 constructed now face an uncertain 
 future. What is certainis that it 
 will be much worse than we can ima
 gine.\n\nGovernment policy is todesi
 gn to keep out cold. That’s main
 ly what zero carbon means. In the 
 fairlynear future the priority wil
 l be keeping cool. How will the ma
 tchstick homeswe’re building now
  fare then? \n\nhttp://www.facebook.
 com/event.php?eid=281082433201
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