A hot topic in February
Global warming is the theme of an event on 5 February being organised by the Budleigh Salterton Festival Trust. The one-day Climate Change and Global Warming Conference organised by The Budleigh Salterton Festival Trust has been described as the town's first-ever science festival and comes in the wake of the Copenhagen climate talks. Melting ice in Antarctica, just one manifestation of global warming Speakers will consist of a prominent politician, a senior representative from the Met Office and one of the BBC's well known weather forecasters. It's a commonly expressed view that forthcoming generations will not remember us well if we shirk responsibility for global warming by leaving behind us a deterioriating environment polluted by carbon-producing nations, say the Budleigh conference organisers. International agreement on the trading of carbon credits between nations was one of the hoped-for goals at Copenhagen. But such a system, whereby prosperous nations can pay to co...