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. Some prompt questions could include: • What is climate change? • What does it make you think of? • What are some of the impacts of climate change? • How might climate change affect people around the world? Slides 4 Groupwork Once they have had some time to discuss, come back together as a group

on the ground. Once a month, volunteers attend weekend development sessions, focused on essential skills such as using GIS (geographical information systems) to create maps. These maps display specific data depending on what’s needed by the government or aid agencies in-country, from where roads have

altitudes, this causes melting to increase, in a process known as the melt-elevation positive feedback. Once more than 10% of the ice is lost, the change may be irreversible even if temperatures return to pre-industrial levels, leading to an alternate intermediate stable state with less mass in the ice

of August there are currently no strong signals for any warmer or more settled weather, with the unsettled regime looking most likely to continue to dominate at least for the first half of the month. On balance, the greatest chance of seeing any brief, drier and slightly warmer interludes, would most

so far has seen temperatures close to average; September saw some warm spells and also some colder spells, but during October there were no extremes of temperature and very little frost. Much of September was dry, with some short unsettled spells, but October was largely unsettled, with only brief

(CSR) settlements and Rob Varley briefed the Board on strategic plans, including a response to CSR impacts. Steve Noyes (Operations and Services Director) gave an overview of a proposed Transformation and Efficiency (T&E) programme and the Board discussed and noted a number of points, including the use

  Saturday could provide a brief respite from the winds and rain for a time, before another front moves in from the west, bringing further wet and windy weather. It will feel rather cold, with a good chance of patchy frost overnight, even in the south. Unsettled and changeable conditions look likely

and again for the last week, but well above average during 10th-23rd. Most of January was distinctly colder than average, with some severe frosts in the north, and only brief milder spells which were most marked in the south; monthly-mean temperatures were 1.5 °C below average, making it the coldest

on trains, ferries and flights to check with their operators to see if their services are affected.” As Storm Gareth moves away from the UK, the winds will ease and the rest of the week will remain unsettled with showers or spells of rain, and some brief drier interludes. Although temperatures

options in May 2015. The Board discussed outcomes of the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) and levels of future funding. The Board briefly discussed the future relationship with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), as well as its needs for accommodation and high