Part 1 of 6 Why should the NHS take climate change seriously? The environment and health.

A panel discussion recorded on the 7th July 2009 chaired by Fiona Godlee, editor in chief of the BMJ.

High level Doctors and leaders in sustainability give their comments on why the NHS should take climate change seriously and give their views on the environmental film The Age of Stupid and why NHS staff should see it. The panel consider why the NHS must reduce its carbon footprint and how reducing it will improve healthcare.

Taking part are:
Fiona Godlee, editor in chief of the BMJ; Franny Armstrong, Director of The Age of Stupid; Professor Hugh Montgomery, University College London; Dr David Colin-Thomé, Dept of Health; Dr Angela Raffle, Public Health Doctor and expert in Sustainability and Peak Oil; Chris Tuppen, Chief Sustainability Officer at BT.

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• NHS
• Environment
• The Age of Stupid
• Sustainability
• health
• carbon reduction
• global warming
• Department of Health
• UK climate change
• carbon footprint
• doctors
• BMJ
• British Medical Journal
• BT
• British Telecom
• low carbon
• film review

[judomagyar]

the license to view the film made available to everyone working in the NHS?

What does that mean?

Franny! Nice fiction. Not a documentary. Fiction!

The only chance we got to stop climate change is cutting CO2 emissions? NO!

The climate will do what it does whatever we do to the CO2 emissions.

Look up: Miskolczi, Lindzen, Spencer, Shaviv, Svensmark, Plimer, etc....

[SOLDIERF1]

Regarding the Copenhagen Agreement

Ok let's sign another agreement pledging to reduce greenhous gas emissions and save the planet. The Kyoto Agreement was generally a disaster, countries signed the treaty then ignored many of the clauses that they decided were not in their economic interest!

If mankind has spent the last 100 to 200 years altering the climate because of our emissions from industry etc, then I'm afraid that there is nothing we can do now! Why?