Results 1-5 of 5 for climate change speaker:Alan Meale
- Global Warming and Climate Change (18 Jan 2005)
Mr Alan Meale: May I say, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that once again you have proved your timing to be immaculate? You arrived just in time for the clock to change and for this debate to start. Before I present my argument, I wish to pay tribute to and to thank staff in the Commons Library and in the Council of Europe environment secretariat and others, including my hon. Friend the Member for Sunderland, North...
- Global Warming and Climate Change (18 Jan 2005)
Mr Alan Meale: ...by Myron Ebell, director of the business-sponsored Competitive Enterprise Institute, based in Washington DC, who recently outstripped previous first world critics when arguing that describing climate change as "a crisis for humanity" was based on "a tissue of improbabilities, which really only had one true objective", that being "for Europe to attack America's economic superiority". He...
- Global Warming and Climate Change (18 Jan 2005)
Mr Alan Meale: ...they will combat a range of fires. Is that alarmist nonsense? The reality is that we dismiss such warnings at our peril. Let us consider other likely outcomes if the problems of global warming and climate change are not tackled urgently. Many delicate indigenous native plants and wildlife eco-systems would disappear as temperatures rise or fall. Many marine species would either be lost or...
- Suburban Areas (17 Mar 1999)
Mr Alan Meale: ...have suburbs, whereas many of our towns and cities have developed highly successful suburbs over the years. At one time, areas such as Chelsea and Brixton were suburbs of London, but much has changed since then. With the movement of the population to the cities and the growth of public transport, new suburbs were created. The Civic Trust report describes the various categories. Some...
- Road Congestion (West Kent) (3 Mar 1999)
Mr Alan Meale: ...currently available, becoming less flexible and competitive, and its potential for growth will become increasingly constrained. I believe that most people realise that the way in which we travel is changing our environment for the worse. Light pollution and noise from transport have changed much of our countryside. Road construction and car parking have made heavy demands on land, and...