[Green-global] Science and Technology Select Committee

[Anne Goddard]

Dear Friends

In responce to the Global Climate Change Actions around the world tomorrow, 
(December 3) I have found some good people to write letters to in the UK:

What these guys do:
http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/lords_s_t_select.cfm
#overview
"The Science and Technology Committee was established in 1979 and is
one of the main investigative committees in the House of Lords. It
represents a major forum of independent expertise, drawing on the
wide experience of members of the House.

The Committee's broad remit is "to consider science and technology".
It works principally through inquiries undertaken by two Sub-
Committees, constituted afresh for each inquiry.

Each inquiry leads to a report, published together with the evidence
on which it is based, setting out the Committee's findings and making
recommendations to the Government and others."

The Committee investigates activities across the whole range of
Government:
<including snip> Technological challenges and opportunities -
existing and future - which Government faces: e.g. resistance to
antibiotics, management of nuclear waste, human genetic databases,
innovations in microprocessing, and the implications of digital
imaging for the law of evidence.

15 members .... their information is here:
http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/lords_s_t_select/lor
ds_s_t_select_members.cfm
Namely: Lord Broers (Chairman),
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff,
Lord Howie of Troon,
Lord May of Oxford (co-opted for Pandemic Influenza),
Lord Mitchell,
Lord Patel,
Lord Paul,
Baroness Perry of Southwark,
Baroness Platt of Writtle,
Earl of Selborne,
Baroness Sharp of Guildford,
Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior (co-opted for Pandemic Influenza),
Lord Sutherland of Houndwood,
Lord Taverne,
Lord Winston,
Lord Young of Graffham

Individual contact details require subscription (over 1000 pounds),
therefore, I suggest contacting the Committee via their General
email:

hlscience at parliament.uk

and via their Secretary/Administrator:
Michael Norman
normanmi at parliament.uk

And asking.... WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE????
.... before December 3.

My letter is copy and pasted below, please feel free to use any or all of it 
in your own letters.

Cheers
a

Dear Lord Broers, Baroness Finlay of Llandaff,
Lord Howie of Troon, Lord May of Oxford, Lord Mitchell, Lord Patel, Lord 
Paul, Baroness Perry of Southwark, Baroness Platt of Writtle, Earl of 
Selborne, Baroness Sharp of Guildford,
Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior, Lord Sutherland of Houndwood, Lord Taverne, 
Lord Winston,
Lord Young of Graffham

It is with the deepest respect that I write to you today to outline my grave 
fears on Climate Change and the current political inaction on this massive 
issue.

December 3, 2005, has been nominated as the day when people from all around 
the world will be taking to the streets in the hope of raising public and 
political awareness of Global Climate Change.

In 1998, I witnessed first hand the devastation of the inshore reef of 
Picnic Bay on Magnetic Island in Queensland, Australia. What was, the 
previous year, a healthy ecosystem and a  magnificent tourist attraction, 
became in twelve short months a bleached, dying, suffocating tragedy. The 
inshore reef is now a muddy rubble covered with sea weed. I do not believe 
this reef will ever recover.

In the short time (5 years) that I had the privileged to live in this 
tropical paradise, I witnessed the death of nearly all of the inshore reef 
systems on every bay of the island.

It is with great sadness that I now understand that my children were two of 
the most fortunate ones, they were able to see the reef first hand, before 
it died.

I understand that one of the great wonders of the world, Australia's Great 
Barrier Reef, will soon face extinction. I understand that there is not much 
any single human being can do to stop the rapid decline, and death, of this 
living marvel of the world.

I understand that there is not much any single human being can do to stop 
the massive problem that, we, as a race of people, have created for 
ourselves. It is with this in mind that I started a Climate Change Action 
Group. And it is with this in mind that I write to you today. As one of the 
worlds most powerful "think tanks" I ask you with the deepest respect, what 
are you doing about Climate Change?

This letter is sent in hope that powerful and respected scientists such as 
yourselves hold the real answers. My own eyes and global scientific research 
has proven that Climate Change is no longer "science fiction" but fact. Your 
recommendations and research guide the decisions of our political leaders. I 
write in the hope that your Committee will pressure our political leaders to 
invest NOW, into clean, safe, sustainable energy alternatives.

Yours sincerely
Anne Goddard

You are cordially invited to join the Climate Change Action group and help 
our community tackle this global problem.
http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/ClimateChangeAction/