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Anglesey
(Menai Bridge)

Dr. Gerry Wolff

Any audience
Day/evening

North Wales

Power from deserts: the huge potential of 'concentrating solar power' (CSP); transmitting solar electricity over very long distances, and the several bonuses from CSP.

Also: cutting personal CO2 emissions.

Dr. Wolff is a former university lecturer, Chartered Engineer and long-time environmental campaigner.
(The web addresses for CSP are:
www.trec-uk.org.uk
www.mng.org.uk/green_house/)

email: Gerry@mng.org.uk
tel: 01248 712962

Brecon Beacons

James Cresswell

Any audience
Day/evening

Any.

Travels abroad for part of year - in UK August, October, November 2010.

"Polar Climate Crisis"

How and why the polar regions are changing and what this means for the rest of the world.

Has been an expedition guide in the Canadian Arctic, Greenland, Svalbard, Antarctica and S. Atlantic islands.
Has a degree in geology and masters in oceanography.
Involved with the British Council's International Climate Change Champions programme.

Web: www.climatechangewitness.org
(links to short video)

email:
james@climatechangewitness.org 
tel: 01497 847262

Cardiff

Susan Richardson

Any audience
Day/evening

Reasonable distance

ARCTIC and sub-arctic; Antarctica

'Creatures of the Intertidal Zone': the impact of climate change in the Arctic - poetry reading and talk - rooted in ice and ocean and the journeys made across them by humans and animals.

As well as readings to various societies, regularly performs on Radio Wales and at literature festivals, environmental events & conferences. Has run workshops for all ages in several countries.

email:
susan@susanrichardsonwriter.co.uk
tel: 029 20395229

Cardiff

Dr. Roger Wade

Any audience
Day/evening

Cardiff area

General talks on Climate Change.

Marine Renewable Energy
Carbon Trading
Climate Change and Agriculture
Climate Change and Health

Experimental Climate Change- A description of Climate Change and the impacts  through experimentation.
 

Involved in environmental issues for over 30 years. Climate Change Policy Advisor for the Environment Agency in Wales. Has given evidence to the Welsh Assembly Government on carbon reduction. Past member of the Climate Change Commission in Wales sub-groups on emissions reduction,  health impacts and land use.
Involved in Severn Tidal Power investigations.
Royal Statistical Society Climate Change initiative with schools.


email: roger.wade@environment-agency.wales.gov.uk
tel:
0780 3586048; 02920 468891 (work)

Haverfordwest

Peter Davies

Any audience,
esp. business

Day/evening

Reasonable distance.

All Wales for major meetings.

All aspects of climate change.
 

Vice Chair (Wales) of the Sustainable Development Commission; Member of the 2020 Task Force on the Future of Agriculture and the Environment in Wales; Co-ordinator of The Prince’s Charities in Wales; Associate Director "Business in the Community".

email: peter@pdpartnership.co.uk
tel: 01834814955; 07976457032

Hay-on Wye

Dr. Laurence Matthews

Any audience except primary schools
Day/evening

Reasonable distance

Why should I do my bit, unless everyone else does too? And what about China? Realistic answers to these questions can be surprisingly up-beat and inspiring.

“Why light-bulbs are important – but not for the reason you’d think”.

Has worked in universities and in industry; recently gave evidence to the House of Commons Environment Select Committee on the psychology of tackling climate change.

email: laurencematthews@hotmail.co.uk
tel:
01497 820152

Northop, Flintshire

Dr. Tom Rippeth

Adults and secondary schools
Day/evening

Wrexham, Flintshire, Chester

Climate physics, ocean circulation, climate change in the high Arctic.

Teaches aspects of climate and climate change at both undergraduate and MSc level.

Has BSc Meteorology, PhD Physical Oceanography. Researched the role of oceans in absorbing atmospheric CO2, also the Arctic Ocean and its link to global climate.

Appearances on BBC Wales Café Scientific.

email: t.p.rippeth@bangor.ac.uk
tel: 01352 840972;
      01248 382293 (work)

South-East Wales

Stop Climate Chaos Cymru
: several speakers available

Various audiences

Including Swansea, Cardiff, Torfaen, Bridgend

General overview of climate change and why action is important.

Contact the co-ordinator Kate Meakin

email: kate@stopclimatechaos.org

tel: 0300 200 1269

St. Davids

Andy Middleton

Any audience,
esp. business
& government

Day/evening

 

Reasonable distance

All UK for major events and conferences.

Facilitator, speaker and chair. Hot topics on behavioural change in relation to climate solutions; what climate change means for business and government. Ways of changing threat into opportunity. Practical examples from a business that is making the shift to carbon positive. Designing and implementing your own 80% reduction plan.

Managing Director of the TYF Group, eco entrepreneur and consultant to business and government. Member of Prince of Wales’ Business & Environment Programme; Board member of Cynnal Cymru/Sustain Wales; Council Member, Countryside Council or Wales; Founder, St Davids Eco City Project; Associate, Carbon Sense. Regular climate change media work for newspapers, magazines, TV & radio.

email: andy.m@tyf.com
tel: 01437 720879; 07778 678 754

Swansea

Michael Wiseman

Any audience
Day/evening

Reasonable distance

"Six degrees and counting":
Climate change and the various aspects of the effects on indigenous peoples around the world and the probable effects on us in the UK.

"The Thin Red Line":
Our place in the Solar System. How we arrived here and what may happen if we upset that coincidental balance of Nature. Will we end up as Mars or Venus perhaps through our actions?

Studies all aspects of environmental and climate situations, as well as the relevance of our existence in the context of the universe.
Honours degree in Geosciences, diplomas in Earth Sciences and Computing.


email: m.wiseman1@sky.com
tel:

01792 204630 (home); 07889 056224