Where does the Beast come from?
It was a great pleasure under such an unpleasant weather to spend the Saturday afternoon in Conway Hall listening to a range of international experts and campaigners to discuss the environmental sustainability issues and the impact of population growth on climate change, this conference of ''Climate Change and Us' was hosted by the membership charity Population Matters and chaired by Sara Parkin . One of the noteworthy takeaways for me is from the speech about ''Arctic Climate Feedback and Food production'' given by Prof Peter Wadhams who is UK's most experienced sea ice scientist, best known for his worldwide authority and 47 years of research on sea ice and physical ocean processes in the Arctic and the Antarctic. ''Since the first measurements of albedo were collected from Nimbus-7 in 1979 '' , it is estimated that '' the Arctic ocean albedo has changed from 52% to 48% , produced an increase in radiative forcing 4W/m2'...