date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 12:39:40 -0000
from: Magna Specialist Confectioners <tgreen@magna.co.uk>
subject: Climate change in the UK
to: "m.hulme" <m.hulme@uea.ac.uk>

Dear Dr Hulme,

I am the Resource director of Magna Specialist Confectioners a company in
Telford who manufacture chocolate confectionery. We are members of the
British Cake Chocolate and Confectionery Alliance. This organization is the
focal point for all companies in our industry including some global players
such as Cadbury, Nestle, and Mars. This year we a chairing our annual
conference and are responsible for producing a theme and speakers.

We have decided that the theme to the conference will be "predicting the
unpredictable". We aim to open the conference with a speaker to discuss the
theory of prediction. Then to lead into four speakers on a diverse range of
topics where  prediction of the future is regularly performed and where the
subject is relevant to our industry. We aim to end the conference with a
speaker who represents a large business who currently try to predict future
external events and how they may impact on their company.

In the main section of the conference we want to have a section on climate
and how changes in the future can be predicted and what impact possible
changes would have on the consumers and consumption patterns for out
products.

Having studied climate change some 15 years ago at UCL I was drawn to the
UEA  knowing the type of work carried out at the CRU. Having investigated
the website and the description of your book Climates of the British Isles:
present, past and future, I wondered if you would be interested in
discussing this speaking opportunity further. The conference will be
attended by senior executives of a wide range of members of the Alliance.
Obviously we would discuss fees at the appropriate time.

Yours Sincerely 

Tim Green