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Event Reminder: Cockermouth GeoTrail
A stroll around Cockermouth Building Stones in
search of geology
Walk details can be downloaded from
https://www.cbdc.org.uk/wp-
content/uploads/2021/11/Cockermouth-Rock-
Trail.pdf
After the walk we intend to gather in The Bush on Main Street 7.15 – 7.30. Anyone looking for food is advised to book in advance either at The Bush that will take a group of no more than 6 or elsewhere. Other options include: Hunters which will also have a quiz, Tarantella restaurant, The Bitter End and at more expense, The Trout.
https://www.cumberland-geol-soc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2024-CGS-Cockermouth-Excursion-Register-22-May.pdf
Event Reminder: Smardale Geo Trail
Leader: Sylvia Woodhead
Meet 10.30 am at the CWT car park at Smardale NY 742 083.
CGS members assisted with an earlier version of this GeoTrail, from Newbiggin-on-Lune. This GeoTrail starts in the new CWT car park and follows a GeoTrail designed for the Westmorland Dales Landscape Partnership Project. We will follow the trail over Smardale Fell, examining Carboniferous Ashfell Limestone and Sandstone, and return along the former railway line. About 5 miles, including open fell. GeoTrail leaflet available. Bring lunch.
Information Added – Smardale Geo Trail
Flyers have been added to the website and are available to download from the Event page.
https://www.cumberland-geol-soc.org.uk/events/smardale-geo-trail/
Monday, May 13, 2024 Starts 10:30
Event Recording: Tipping positive change to avoid climate tipping points
The recording of presentation by Prof. Tim Horton is available to members in the members area.
https://www.cumberland-geol-soc.org.uk/members-area/2023-24-lecture-recordings/
Tipping positive change to avoid climate tipping points
Wednesday 7th February 2024.
At 19.30
Meeting opens 10 minutes before.
Zoom link available to members
Prof. Tim Lenton, Exeter University.
Tipping points in climate science normally refer to small changes in the Earth system that unleash much broader, typically damaging impacts that accelerate climate change. Well-known examples are rising sea levels due to disintegration of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets, or the release of methane from the thawing permafrost. They help to underline the urgency of climate action. Today most people understand we must reduce emissions – and very quickly.
This evening Tim will summarise recent evidence regarding climate tipping points, which supports declarations that we are in a ‘climate emergency’. Then he will turn to identifying positive social tipping points that will need to be triggered to have any hope of limiting global warming to well below 2C.
Tim Lenton is Chair in Climate Change and Earth System Science at Exeter University. His 25 years of research includes developing models to understand the Earth’s behaviour. He co-authored the “Planetary Boundaries” framework and is renowned for his work identifying climate tipping points. He won the European Geosciences Union Outstanding Young Scientist Award in
2006 and subsequently many other prestigious awards. He is in the top 100 Reuters “Hot List” of the worlds top climate scientists so is good at communicating his extensive knowledge.
