date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 13:09:05 -0000 from: "Penstone-Smith Claire Mrs \(MAC\)" subject: FW: Anglia request - climate change to: "Jones Philip Prof \(ENV\)" Dear Phil I wonder if you might be able to help with this request to ratify some facts about climate change. There may be an opportunity at some later stage for someone from the UEA to be interviewed druing Anglia's environmental campaign, but meanwhile if you are able to help, we will ask that the UEA gets some acknowledgement. Kind regards Claire Claire Penstone-Smith Communications Assistant Marketing and Communications Division Tel: 01603 593496 Please note my office hours are Monday & Tuesday. For queries on other days please contact my colleague Sundari at s.faraday-drake@uea.ac.uk ______________________________________________________________________________________ From: Williams, Sascha [mailto:sascha.williams@ITV.COM] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 12:44 PM To: cru@uea.ac.uk Cc: press@uea.ac.uk Subject: ANGLIA REQUEST CLIMATE CHANGE Hi there...further to our conversation, please find details as discussed I'm a journalist at ITV Anglia. In June the different parts of ITV are joining up to launch an `environmental campaign'. In short looking at the way we can save energy, live greener lives and looking at the damage climate change may have. Within the news (Anglia Tonight at 6pm) we're hoping to run a week long series looking at people in East Anglia who are being environmentally friendly. For example spending a day at Ipswich town FC (trying to be the country's first carbon neutral club)... and also visiting a church that's just had solar panels installed. BUT we're actually starting to promote this event on 8^th March off the back of David Milliband's proposed Climate Change Bill ). We're hoping to start with a few `hard hitting' facts about climate change in this region, highlighting WHY we're doing this campaign. It would be read by our presenters and represented by some graphics on screen - thus needs to be fairly simplistic. But before I go ahead and use this info, I was hoping someone in your climatic research centre may be able to check they are not wildly inaccurate. I have included them below in BOLD Thanks for your help Sascha ***By the 2050s, annual temperatures in this part of the world could be on average more than 2C warmer than they are now - 30 years later that may rise to more than 3C... could be bad news for farmers and agriculture here. ***There are predictions that global sea levels may rise between 12cm and 67cm ...By far the worst effects will be felt in low-lying areas of countries like Bangladesh and Pakistan - but there will also be some serious consequences for East Anglia, with the possibility parts of the fens and the broads will be lost to the sea. ***And despite some areas suffering summer droughts - there could also be more winter floods......Heavy rain has already increased by 50 percent over the last forty years...and could be linked to climate change. ____________________________________________ [image001.gif] Sascha Williams Reporter Office (01603) 753047 Mobile (07720) 598096 Fax (01603) 622574 ********************************************************************** Please visit the official ITV website at [1]www.itv.com for the latest company news. This email and any files transmitted are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed. If you have received this email in error, please notify postmaster@itv.com Please think of the environment before printing this email. Thank you. ********************************************************************** Embedded Content: image0019.gif: 00000001,30545daa,00000000,60b15afa