DOCSLIB.ORG

Gardening in a Changing Climate Acknowledgements

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Gardening in a Changing Climate Acknowledgements Gardening in a Changing Climate Acknowledgements The RHS and University of Reading would like to acknowledge the support provided by Innovate UK through the short Knowledge Transfer Partnership KTP 1000769 from November 2012 to September 2013. The RHS is grateful to the Trustees of Spencer Horticultural Trust, who supported the project to revise the Gardening in the Global Greenhouse report. The RHS would also like to thank: The authors of the 2002 report, Richard Bisgrove and Professor Paul Hadley, for building the foundations for this updated report. The contributors of this report: Dr John David (RHS), Dr Ross Cameron (University of Sheffield), Dr Alastair Culham (University of Reading), Kathy Maskell (Walker Institute, University of Reading) and Dr Claudia Bernardini (KTP Research Associate). Dr Mark McCarthy (Met Office) and Professor Tim Sparks (Coventry University) for their expert consultation on the climate projections and phenology chapters, respectively. This document is available to download as a free PDF at: www.rhs.org.uk/climate-change Citation Webster E, Cameron RWF and Culham A (2017) Gardening in a Changing Climate, Royal Horticultural Society, UK. About the authors Dr Eleanor Webster is a Climate Scientist at the Royal Horticultural Society Dr Ross Cameron is a Senior Lecturer in Landscape Management, Ecology & Design at the University of Sheffield Dr Alastair Culham is an Associate Professor of Botany at the University of Reading Gardening in a Changing Climate 2 Gardening in a Changing Climate Eleanor Webster, Ross Cameron and Alastair Culham RHS 3 Contents Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................................................................. 2 Contents page ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Executive Summary ........................................................................................................................................................................... 8 A summary of climate projections .............................................................................................................................................. 8 Implications for gardeners .............................................................................................................................................................. 8 What can you do? ............................................................................................................................................................................... 9 Preface ..................................................................................................................................................................................................10 1. INTRODUCTION ...........................................................................................................................................................................11 2. CLIMATE CHANGE: THE GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ...............................................................................................................13 2.1 Changes in the global climate system ............................................................................................................................................. 15 2.1.1 The interaction between the atmosphere and the ocean ............................................................................................................... 15 2.2 Causes of climate change ..................................................................................................................................................................... 17 2.3 Projections of future climate ............................................................................................................................................................... 19 2.3.1 Simulating the global climate system ...................................................................................................................................................... 19 2.3.2 Future climate change .................................................................................................................................................................................... 19 2.4 Global action to address human–induced climate change .................................................................................................... 21 2.5 Summary ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 22 3. THE FUTURE CLIMATE OF THE UK ........................................................................................................................................23 3.1 Characteristics of UK climate .............................................................................................................................................................. 23 3.2 How is UK climate changing? .............................................................................................................................................................. 23 3.2.1 Temperature ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 23 3.2.2 Rainfall ................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 24 3.2.3 Frost ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 24 3.2.4 Sea–level rise ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 25 3.2.5 Storms/windiness .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 25 3.3 How will the climate of the UK change in the future? .............................................................................................................. 26 3.3.1 Changes in temperature and rainfall ........................................................................................................................................................ 26 3.3.2 Heat–waves, dry spells and frosts .............................................................................................................................................................. 26 3.3.3 Soil moisture ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 29 3.3.4 Sea–level rise ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 30 3.3.5 Changes in storminess .................................................................................................................................................................................... 30 3.3.6 Solar radiation and cloudiness .................................................................................................................................................................... 30 Gardening in a Changing Climate 4 3.4 The UK’s variable weather and its implications for projections of future climate ........................................................ 31 3.4.1 The effect of year to year variability......................................................................................................................................................... 31 3.4.2 The influence of the Gulf Stream............................................................................................................................................................... 32 3.4.3 The Jet Stream ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 32 3.5 Recent extreme weather events and seasons............................................................................................................................... 33 3.6 Summary and discussion ...................................................................................................................................................................... 35 3.6.1 Current and near term (present to the 2040s) ..................................................................................................................................... 35 3.6.2 Medium and longer term (2050 to 2100) ............................................................................................................................................. 35 3.6.3 What does this mean for gardening? ......................................................................................................................................................
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Two New Leaf-Beetles Species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) for the Latvian Fauna
    Baltic J. Coleopterol. 9(2) 2009 ISSN 1407 - 8619 Two new leaf-beetles species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) for the Latvian fauna Andris Bukejs Bukejs A. 2009. Two new leaf-beetles species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) for the Latvian fauna. Baltic J. Coleopterol., 9(2): 155 – 160. The first records of the leaf-beetles, Cryptocephalus solivagus Leonardi & Sassi, 2001 and Chrysolina coerulans coerulans (Scriba, 1791) in the Latvian fauna are presented. General information on their distribution and ecology is given. The figures of the habitus and the sclerites of the endophallus of Cryptocephalus solivagus Leonardi & Sassi, 2001 are presented. Key words: Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Latvia, fauna. Andris Bukejs. Institute of Systematic Biology, Daugavpils University, Vienîbas 13, Daugavpils, LV-5401, Latvia. E-mail: [email protected] INTRODUCTION species are reported in Eastern Europe (Bieńkowski 2004). In Latvia, 35 species are Worldwide, the leaf-beetles are one of the largest known (Bukejs et al. 2007; Bukejs 2008). groups of the order Coleoptera, represented by 30000–50000 species (Bieńkowski 2004; Brovdij The genus Chrysolina Motschulsky, 1860 1985; Jolivet 1988; Mohr 1966). This family is contains 469 species and 251 subspecies abundant and rich in species also in the fauna of (Bieńkowski 2007). Most species are distributed Latvia and the Baltic States. The history of in Europe, Asia and Africa. A small number of investigation of leaf-beetles in Latvia is more than species inhabits North America (including 220 years old (Bukejs 2008). introduced European ones). Some species were introduced into Australia (Bieńkowski 2001). In the present paper faunistic data on two leaf- There are 49 species known from Eastern Europe beetles species, Cryptocephalus solivagus (Bieńkowski 2004).
    [Show full text]
  • Can You Make Morphometrics Work When You Know the Right Answer? Pick and Mix Approaches for Apple Identification
    RESEARCH ARTICLE Can you make morphometrics work when you know the right answer? Pick and mix approaches for apple identification 1¤ 2 1 Maria D. ChristodoulouID , Nicholas Hugh Battey , Alastair CulhamID * 1 University of Reading Herbarium, Harborne Building, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, United Kingdom, 2 School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights Reading, United Kingdom a1111111111 ¤ Current address: Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom a1111111111 * [email protected] a1111111111 a1111111111 a1111111111 Abstract Morphological classification of living things has challenged science for several centuries and has led to a wide range of objective morphometric approaches in data gathering and analy- sis. In this paper we explore those methods using apple cultivars, a model biological system OPEN ACCESS in which discrete groups are pre-defined but in which there is a high level of overall morpho- Citation: Christodoulou MD, Battey NH, Culham A logical similarity. The effectiveness of morphometric techniques in discovering the groups is (2018) Can you make morphometrics work when you know the right answer? Pick and mix evaluated using statistical learning tools. No one technique proved optimal in classification approaches for apple identification. PLoS ONE on every occasion, linear morphometric techniques slightly out-performing geometric 13(10): e0205357. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. (72.6% accuracy on test set versus 66.7%).
    [Show full text]
  • Brouci Z Čeledi Mandelinkovitých (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Lokality Hůrka V Hluboké Nad Vltavou
    STŘEDOŠKOLSKÁ ODBORNÁ ČINNOST Brouci z čeledi mandelinkovitých (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) lokality Hůrka v Hluboké nad Vltavou Albert Damaška Praha 2012 STŘEDOŠKOLSKÁ ODBORNÁ ČINNOST OBOR SOČ: 08 – Ochrana a tvorba životního prostředí Brouci z čeledi mandelinkovitých (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) lokality Hůrka v Hluboké nad Vltavou Leaf beetles (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) of the locality „Hůrka“ in Hluboká nad Vltavou Autor: Albert Damaška Škola: Gymnázium Jana Nerudy, Hellichova 3, Praha 1 Konzultant: Michael Mikát Praha 2012 1 Prohlášení Prohlašuji, že jsem svou práci vypracoval samostatně pod vedením Michaela Mikáta, použil jsem pouze podklady (literaturu, SW atd.) uvedené v přiloženém seznamu a postup při zpracování a dalším nakládání s prací je v souladu se zákonem č. 121/2000 Sb., o právu autorském, o právech souvisejících s právem autorským a o změně některých zákonů (autorský zákon) v platném znění. V ………… dne ………………… podpis: …………………………… 2 Poděkování Rád bych na tomto místě poděkoval především svému konzultantovi Michaelu Mikátovi za pomoc při psaní textu práce, tvorbě grafů a výpočtech. Dále patří dík Mgr. Pavlu Špryňarovi a RNDr. Jaromíru Strejčkovi za determinaci některých jedinců a za cenné rady a zkušenosti k práci v terénu, které jsem mimo jiné užil i při sběru dat pro tuto práci. Děkuji i Mgr. Lýdii Černé za korekturu anglického jazyka v anotaci. V neposlední řadě patří dík i mým rodičům za obětavou pomoc v mnoha situacích a za pomoc při dopravě na lokalitu. 3 Anotace Mandelinkovití brouci (Chrysomelidae) jsou velmi vhodnými bioindikátory vzhledem k jejich vazbě na rostliny. Cílem práce bylo provedení faunistického průzkumu brouků čeledi mandelinkovitých na lokalitě Hůrka v Hluboké nad Vltavou na Českobudějovicku a zjištěné výsledky aplikovat v ochraně lokality.
    [Show full text]
  • Herbarium News
    Herbarium News University of Reading Herbarium Newsletter Issue No. 45, December 2008. ISSN 0953-0080 URL: www.herbarium.reading.ac.uk INTRODUCTION Welcome to another Christmas Herbarium News. As with every edition we have much to report! During the last year a number of important things have happened, not least the refurbishment of two of our taxonomy laboratories (more details below). We have also changed the name of our building from ‘Plant Science Laboratories’ to ‘The Harborne Building’ to commemorate Jeffrey Harborne, FRS, our late lamented phytochemist. This is in line with University policy to name buildings after people, and the new biomolecular sciences building (behind Chemistry) for our medical and pharmacy researchers will be called the Hopkins Building, after the late Professor Harold Hopkins, sometime Professor in Physics here who developed fibre optics and the endoscope. The Herbarium has been especially busy having now completed the incorporation of the Herbarium from the University of Southampton, again see below. HERBARIUM REVIEW AND STRATEGY Our School of Biological Sciences recently undertook a review of the Herbarium, along with the Cole Museum of Zoology and a number of other issues. Ours was led by Professor Philip John with Professor Martin Bell (Archaeology), Kate Arnold-Foster (Head of the University’s Museums and Special Collections Service and Dr Karen Henderson (Head of Technical Services, Biological Sciences). They were very positive and have recommended that a Herbarium Strategy be drawn up for the next five years, currently in progress. Senate also positively noted the Herbarium’s growing level of engagement with the University and the likely increase in the commercial value of this resource.
    [Show full text]
  • Some Results of Breeding a Predatory Stink Bug of Perillus Bioculatus F. (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae) in the Republic of Moldova
    BIO Web of Conferences 21, 00024 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/20202100024 XI International Scientific and Practical Conference “Biological Plant Protection is the Basis of Agroecosystems Stabilization” Some results of breeding a predatory stink bug of Perillus bioculatus F. (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae) in the Republic of Moldova Dina Elisovetcaia1*, Valeriu Derjanschi1, Irina Agas'eva 2, and Mariya Nefedova2 1Institute of Zoology, Republic of Moldova, Chisinau 2All-Russian Research Institute of Biological Plant Protection, Russia, Krasnodar-39, 350039 Abstract. The impact of insect artificial diet on the egg production of females was examined for L29 consequently generations of laboratory populations Perillus bioculatus (F.) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae, Asopinae). Particular attention is paid to the overwintered generation, which plays a key role in the rehabilitation of the predator populations after hibernation. It was shown that with an increase in the number of laboratory generations of a predator (from L13 to L29), egg production of P. bioculatus females significantly decreases – from 16.4-35.7 to 15.0-27.5 eggs / female in terms of the total number of females in the laboratory populations. The proportion of eggs laid by females of winter generation was the lowest when feeding on Galleria mellonella larvae. Was established food preferences among the assortment of native for Republic of Moldova leaf beetles: Entomoscelis adonidis Pallas 1771, Chrysolina herbacea (Duftschmid, 1825) and C. coerulans (Scriba, 1791). P. bioculatus imago overwintered generation refused to feed on E. suturalis larvae and imago, probably because of the isoquinoline alkalods contained in the hemolymph of the leaf beetle. Studies have shown that supplementary feeding with imago of E.
    [Show full text]
  • RHS Gardening in a Changing Climate Report
    Gardening in a Changing Climate Acknowledgements The RHS and University of Reading would like to acknowledge the support provided by Innovate UK through the short Knowledge Transfer Partnership KTP 1000769 from November 2012 to September 2013. The RHS is grateful to the Trustees of Spencer Horticultural Trust, who supported the project to revise the Gardening in the Global Greenhouse report. The RHS would also like to thank: The authors of the 2002 report, Richard Bisgrove and Professor Paul Hadley, for building the foundations for this updated report. The contributors of this report: Dr John David (RHS), Dr Ross Cameron (University of Sheffield), Dr Alastair Culham (University of Reading), Kathy Maskell (Walker Institute, University of Reading) and Dr Claudia Bernardini (KTP Research Associate). Dr Mark McCarthy (Met Office) and Professor Tim Sparks (Coventry University) for their expert consultation on the climate projections and phenology chapters, respectively. This document is available to download as a free PDF at: Gardening in a www.rhs.org.uk/climate-change Citation Changing Climate Webster E, Cameron RWF and Culham A (2017) Gardening in a Changing Climate, Royal Horticultural Society, UK. Eleanor Webster, About the authors Ross Cameron and Dr Eleanor Webster is a Climate Scientist at the Royal Horticultural Alastair Culham Society Dr Ross Cameron is a Senior Lecturer in Landscape Management, Ecology & Design at the University of Sheffield Dr Alastair Culham is an Associate Professor of Botany at the University of Reading Gardening in a Changing Climate RHS 2 3 Contents Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................................................................. 2 3.4 The UK’s variable weather and its implications for projections of future climate .......................................................
    [Show full text]
  • New RHS Climate Change Survey
    RHSScience IssUE 16 — aPRIL 2013. PHOTOS . New RHS climate MIKE SLEIGH ( change survey DROUGHT IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE UNIVERSITY of Reading, the ); RHS has launched a survey to better understand CAROL how gardeners are reacting to changes in the UK SHEPPARD climate and to discover whether they have been ( provided with the knowledge they need to plan FLOOD their gardening in the future. ) This survey is intended to provide the material for the follow-up to the RHS’s 2002 report ‘Gardening in the Global Greenhouse’, which discussed potential challenges that gardens and gardeners in the UK were likely to face, based on climate change projections. survey will help us understand the perceived effects The 2002 ‘Gardening According to more recent climate models, the of climate change and the individual’s response to in the Global projections have changed. Thus UK gardeners may well those changes, a vital part of the new report and Greenhouse’ have to prepare for a different set of climatic conditions. for new adaptation strategies in UK gardening report predicted practices.” n extremes of Says Claudia Bernardini, who is leading the project weather and for the RHS, “We need to plan and prepare for what ► To take part in the survey, go to http://blogs. more exotic plantings. future changes might bring. The findings from this reading.ac.uk/crg/climate-change-and-gardening Andrew Halstead garden fauna. Following a fewer than 13 talks on subjects has left the building recent promotion, as Principal ranging from “bugs that bite After 41 years at Wisley, Andrew Scientist Plant Health, he also back” to honeybee anatomy.
    [Show full text]
  • Arxiv:1810.00224V2 [Q-Bio.PE] 7 Dec 2020 Humanity Is Increasingly Influencing Global Environments [195]
    A Survey of Biodiversity Informatics: Concepts, Practices, and Challenges Luiz M. R. Gadelha Jr.1* Pedro C. de Siracusa1 Artur Ziviani1 Eduardo Couto Dalcin2 Helen Michelle Affe2 Marinez Ferreira de Siqueira2 Luís Alexandre Estevão da Silva2 Douglas A. Augusto3 Eduardo Krempser3 Marcia Chame3 Raquel Lopes Costa4 Pedro Milet Meirelles5 and Fabiano Thompson6 1National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Petrópolis, Brazil 2Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Germany 2Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 3Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 4National Institute of Cancer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 5Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil 6Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Abstract The unprecedented size of the human population, along with its associated economic activities, have an ever increasing impact on global environments. Across the world, countries are concerned about the growing resource consumption and the capacity of ecosystems to provide them. To effectively conserve biodiversity, it is essential to make indicators and knowledge openly available to decision-makers in ways that they can effectively use them. The development and deployment of mechanisms to produce these indicators depend on having access to trustworthy data from field surveys and automated sensors, biological collections, molec- ular data, and historic academic literature. The transformation of this raw data into synthesized information that is fit for use requires going through many refinement steps. The methodologies and techniques used to manage and analyze this data comprise an area often called biodiversity informatics (or e-Biodiversity). Bio- diversity data follows a life cycle consisting of planning, collection, certification, description, preservation, discovery, integration, and analysis.
    [Show full text]
  • Mitochondrial and Chloroplast Dna-Based Phylogeny of Pelargonium (Geraniaceae)1
    CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by Central Archive at the University of Reading American Journal of Botany 87(4): 727±734. 2000. MITOCHONDRIAL AND CHLOROPLAST DNA-BASED PHYLOGENY OF PELARGONIUM (GERANIACEAE)1 FREEK T. B AKKER,2,4 ALASTAIR CULHAM,2 CLIVE E. PANKHURST,2 AND MARY GIBBY3 2Department of Botany, Centre for Plant Diversity and Systematics, The University of Reading, P.O. Box 221, Reading RG6 6AS, UK; and 3Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK Overall phylogenetic relationships within the genus Pelargonium (Geraniaceae) were inferred based on DNA sequences from mitochondrial(mt)-encoded nad1 b/c exons and from chloroplast(cp)-encoded trnL (UAA) 59 exon±trnF (GAA) exon regions using two species of Geranium and Sarcocaulon vanderetiae as outgroups. The group II intron between nad1 exons b and c was found to be absent from the Pelargonium, Geranium, and Sarcocaulon sequences presented here as well as from Erodium, which is the ®rst recorded loss of this intron in angiosperms. Separate phylogenetic analyses of the mtDNA and cpDNA data sets produced largely congruent topologies, indicating linkage between mitochondrial and chloroplast genome inheritance. Simultaneous analysis of the combined data sets yielded a well-resolved topology with high clade support exhibiting a basic split into small and large chromosome species, the ®rst group containing two lineages and the latter three. One large chromosome lineage (x 5 11) comprises species from sections Myrrhidium and Chorisma and is sister to a lineage comprising P. mutans (x 5 11) and species from section Jenkinsonia (x 5 9).
    [Show full text]
  • Rosemary Beetle Chrysolina Americana in Israel
    ISRAEL JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY, Vol. 46, pp. 87–91 (29 July 2016) SHORT COMMUNICATION Rosemary beetle Chrysolina americana: A new invasive leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae) in Israel ARIEL -LEIB -LEONID FRIEDM A N The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Israel National Center for Biodiversity Studies and Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978 Israel. E-mail: [email protected] The Rosemary Leaf Beetle (Chrysolina (Taeniochrysea) americana (Linnaeus, 1758)) does not occur in Americas, it was given this name erroneously. It is dis­ tributed around the Mediterranean Sea in southern Europe, North Africa, the Near East and the Middle East (Balachowsky 1963), although the only avail able records from the Near East are from Turkey (western and south­western pro vinces) (Gül­ Zümreoğlu 1972; Tuatay et al. 1972; Kısmalı 1973; Aslan et al. 2003). I failed to find any additional record of C. americana from the Near East. C. americana is actively expanding its distribution to the north; it appeared in the UK in 1963, and is now considered to be established there (Johnson 1963; Halstead 1996; Barclay & Mann 2002; MacLeod 2002). In recent decades it has been recorded from Belgium, Germany, Switzerland (Kippenberg 2015), The Netherlands (Beenen & Winkelman 2001) and Latvia (Telnov et al. 1997; Bukejs & Telnov 2010). C. americana feeds and breeds mainly on the leaves of rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L.) and la­ ven der (Lavandula species), but also on thyme (Thymus spp.), sage (Salvia spp.), Russian Sage (Perovskia atriplicifolia Benth.), and possibly other plants in the Lamiaceae family (Balachowsky 1963; Bibolini 1964; Halstead 1996; Barclay & Mann 2002; MacLeod 2002; CABI 2016).
    [Show full text]
  • Effectiveness of Maize As an Intercrop in the Management of Insect Pests of Okra: Is There a Better Intercrop Pattern Than Random Intercrop Practiced by Farmers?
    J. Crop Prot. 2018, 7 (1): 65-72________________________________________________________ Research Article Effectiveness of maize as an intercrop in the management of insect pests of okra: Is there a better intercrop pattern than random intercrop practiced by farmers? Usman Zakka, Luke Chinaru Nwosu* and Lemea Peace Nkue Department of Crop and Soil Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Port Harcourt, P. M. B. 5323, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. Abstract: A field trial was carried out during the rainy season of 2015 at the Teaching and Research Farm of Faculty of Agriculture, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria to determine the effectiveness of maize Zea mays L. as an intercrop in managing the pests of okra Abelmoschus esculentum L. There were five treatments namely 1: 1, 2: 1, 3: 1 (okra to maize intercrop ratios), farmers’ practice (random intercrop) and control plot (sole okra). The treatments were assigned one to a plot and arranged in randomized complete block design with four replications. Data were taken on number of days to 50% seedling emergence, 50% flowering and 50% fruiting, number of holes in the leaf damage, number of fruits, weight of undamaged fruits, weight of damaged fruit and population density of insect pests. The sole okra had the highest leaf damage and number of insect pests. Podagrica uniforma Jacoby (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) was the most important insect pest of okra in terms of population density. Okra intercropped with maize in the ratio of 1:1 was the most effective intercrop system in insect pest management. The intercrop pattern should be promoted while random intercrop pattern practiced by farmers should be discouraged.
    [Show full text]
  • Systematics and Taxonomy: Follow-Up
    HOUSE OF LORDS Science and Technology Committee 5th Report of Session 2007–08 Systematics and Taxonomy: Follow-up Report with Evidence Ordered to be printed 21 July 2008 and published 13 August 2008 Published by the Authority of the House of Lords London : The Stationery Office Limited £price HL Paper 162 Science and Technology Committee The Science and Technology Committee is appointed by the House of Lords in each session “to consider science and technology”. Current Membership The Members of the Science and Technology Committee are: Lord Colwyn Lord Crickhowell Lord Haskel Lord Howie of Troon Lord Krebs Lord May of Oxford Lord Methuen Earl of Northesk Lord O’Neill of Clackmannan Lord Patel Earl of Selborne Lord Sutherland of Houndwood (Chairman) Lord Taverne Lord Warner Information about the Committee and Publications Information about the Science and Technology Committee, including details of current inquiries, can be found on the internet at http://www.parliament.uk/hlscience/. Committee publications, including reports, press notices, transcripts of evidence and government responses to reports, can be found at the same address. Committee reports are published by The Stationery Office by Order of the House. General Information General information about the House of Lords and its Committees, including guidance to witnesses, details of current inquiries and forthcoming meetings is on the internet at: http://www.parliament.uk/about_lords/about_lords.cfm. Contacts for the Science and Technology Committee All correspondence should be addressed to: The Clerk of the Science and Technology Committee Committee Office House of Lords London SW1A 0PW The telephone number for general enquiries is 020 7219 6075.
    [Show full text]