Panel
This week's guests:
Professor Philip Stott
Baroness Barbara Young, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency
Dr Anna Lawrence, Head of Social and Economic Research, at the Forestry Commission
Home Planet recording in Edinburgh
An edition of Home Planet is going to be recorded at 1:00pm on Sunday 2 March at the Dynamic Earth Centre in Edinburgh. Please do come and be part of the studio audience. If you would like to pose a question to the panel in person please send us the question in advance by email, post or via the BBC Audience Line, details below, marking your question EDINBURGH.
Dynamic Earth Centre is next to the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, click here for details on how to find it.
We look forward to seeing you on the 2nd of March.
The Home Planet Team.
TOPICS
A Wood Based Society
Would moving to a more wood based society allow us to preserve forests more readily and help absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?
The Forest Stewardship Council, the international scheme that is one of the most widespread schemes for certifying that wood has been harvested sustainably.
Information on forests and climate change from the Forestry Commission.
Further information on forests and climate change from Forest Research, part of the Forestry Commission.
The Forest Products Laboratory of the US Department of Agriculture. This has a huge amount of information on wood and wood products.
Measuring Sea Level
Where is sea level measured from and how might that change as sea levels rise?
A BBC article describing some of the technologies used to measure sea level accurately.
A description of how sea level is measure from the Ordnance Survey.
Description of the Newlyn Tidal Observatory, where the original recordings of sea level were made, from the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory.
Biomass and Flood Plains
Would using flood plains to grow biomass for fuel be a good use of areas that cannot be used to build on?
The Biomass Energy Centre aims to draw together information from existing sources into one easy to use service to UK individuals, companies, local authorities and other UK organizations. This website focuses on the various biomass fuel types that are commercially available or being researched. It provides basic information on fuel processing and supply chains, currently with an emphasis on woodfuel and heat production.
Information on using wood for fuel from Forest Research. This has further links to the many different ways in which wood can be used for fuel.
The Forestry Commission in England is supporting the development of woodfuel - a clean, efficient and renewable energy source. Contains a link to the Forestry Commission's Woodfuel Strategy for England.
Information for anyone wanting to use wood as fuel in Wales.
Information for anyone, business or domestic, wanting to use wood as fuel in Scotland.
How is coal made from trees?
What is the process that turns trees into coal and how many trees does it take to produce a tonne of anthracite?
Instructions for an experiment you can do at home to see how wood is turned into coal.
Detailed information on coal, how it is made, what it is made of and the different types.
Information about the Carboniferous period when the coal in the UK was laid down.
Invest in Models or Mitigation?
The models that are used to predict how climate change will proceed are inaccurate so should more money be spent making them more accurate before we commit to any course of action to mitigate climate change?
Information on computer models of climate from the UK Met Office.
Information on the use of computers to model climate change from the US Department of Energy.
The climate change computer modelling experiment run by the BBC with information and computer programming from the Met Office.
The Royal Society's discussion of the arguments surrounding the use of computers to model climate change.
Contact Home Planet
Send your comments and questions for future programmes to:
Home Planet
BBC Radio 4
PO Box 3096
Brighton BN1 1PL
Or email the programme: [email protected]
Or telephone the Audience Line 03700 100 400
Home Planet is a Pier Production and is produced by Toby Murcott.
The personal information you provide will be held by the BBC and by Pier Productions Ltd, the independent production company which makes Home Planet. Your information will be used for the purpose of creating the Home Planet programme, and will be processed in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. For more details on how the BBC deals with your information, please see the BBC’s Privacy and Cookies Policy at http://www.bbc.co.uk/privacy
30 min
