BILL McGUIRE JOINS FOOTPRINT FRIENDS TEAM
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What are the chances of a devastating supervolcano in Yellowstone?
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Science Oxford presentation - Seven Years to Save the Planet: The world's climate is on the rampage - is it too late to stop it?The future of the Earth's climate looks bleak - new research points to higher temperatures, bigger storms, more floods and the drowning of coastal towns and cities across the planet. Prof Bill McGuire, head of Europe's leading academic hazard research centre, explains that if we are to stop it from happening we may have less than 10 years to do something about it. |
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Bill McGuire has joined Footprint Friends as its Science Advisor. Footprint Friends is a leading campaigner against climate change amongst the young, and is designed specifically to give a voice to 10-18 year-olds. 
Imagine a volcanic blast so devastating it obliterates at a stroke the English county of Yorkshire or the US state of Connecticut; a detonation so titanic it buries a continent in ash and plunges the entire world into a bitter volcanic winter. Volcanic super-eruptions or supervolcanoes may sound like the stuff of disaster movies, but they have happened many times before and scientists monitoring the giant Yellowstone volcanic system in the US state of Wyoming are beginning to wonder if the next one will happen on their patch.Bill McGuire works with Playhouse Disney, Tana Ramsay and Peter Duncan (ex-Blue Peter) to bring the climate change message to pre-schoolers.
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Bill’s new book SEVEN YEARS TO SAVE THE PLANET: THE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS was published on July 10th 2008.
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To accompany Playhouse Disney’s Playing for the Planet Awards for budding eco-warriors, Bill McGuire has drawn up a list of tips to help pre-schoolers and their parents reduce their own and the UK’s carbon footprint.
We live at a pivotal time in human history. While most of us go about our daily business oblivious to the unprecedented environmental changes taking place around us, our world is poised at a critical tipping point beyond which we will bequeath to our children and our children’s children a world of environmental degradation, economic breakdown and social chaos.