cc: "Bye, Helen" , , "Caroline Daniell" date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 20:19:39 -0000 from: "Myles Allen" subject: RE: Lighthill Risk network - propsed event on climate change to: "Howard Cattle" , "Michael Davey" , Hi Howard, Sorry to have been slow responding: it's been a busy term. I talked to one major insurance company about how the science of attribution of extreme weather events to greenhouse gas emissions is firming up, and its potential implications for liability, D&O insurance etc. This might make an interesting additional topic, particularly if you could get a lawyer in (Richard Lord, QC, of Brick Court Chambers, would be ideal). Myles -----Original Message----- From: Howard Cattle [[1]mailto:hyc@noc.soton.ac.uk] Sent: Mon 03/03/2008 16:32 To: Myles Allen; Michael Davey; p.jones@uea.ac.uk Cc: 'Bye, Helen'; mark.gibbs@metoffice.gov.uk; Caroline Daniell Subject: Lighthill Risk network - propsed event on climate change Dear all - sorry hadn't meant to send this to you again. It was intended for Anna Pirani who works for me, but I hit the send button too soon! Howard -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anna - here is the Lighthill email I referred to. Comments welcome. Howard Dear Myles, Mike and Phil You will recall that I contacted you some time back asking if you would be willing to take up membership of Lighthill Risk Network's Climate Change Panel. In the event, Lighthill have decided to proceed on the basis of organizing events on climate issues and insurance rather than having formal panel meetings. It would however still be useful to have you as a "sounding board" for this and future events and from this perspective I would be grateful for your views and feedback on the tentative programme for the first such event (attached) which Lighthill have put together in consultation with a group of their members. It would also be useful to have any suggestions you might have for speakers (you many, of course volunteer yourselves!) and suggestions on what might fit under "another peril to be identified. Here, Lighthill are looking for perils of interest to insurers, which might impact them on the 5-10 year timescale and which are the subject of new research. Lighthill would like to hold this event around the end of April or (more likely) early May. Time to organize it is fairly short therefore. If you could get any comments on this back to me over the next few days (before Thursday if possible) it would be very helpful (as would an indication of your own interest in attending or speaking at the meeting). I'm also copying in the Met Office contacts with Lighthill (Mark & Helen) for any comments they may have. Thanks in anticipation. Regards Howard -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- Dr Howard Cattle Director International CLIVAR Project Office National Oceanography Centre, Southampton Empress Dock, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 3ZH, UK. Email: hyc@noc.soton.ac.uk Direct Phone +44 (0) 23 80596208 Sec'y +44 (0) 23 80596789 Fax +44 (0) 23 80596204 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------- CLIVAR - The Climate Variability and Predictability Project of the World Climate Research Programme [2]http://www.clivar.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ The information contained in this e-mail may be subject to public disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Unless the information is legally exempt from disclosure, the confidentiality of this e-mail and your reply cannot be guaranteed.