"420,000 people live on low-lying land around the Humber Estuary" (revised from 300,000)
The Environment Agency

Jacqueline McGlade, chief of the European Agency, is quoted as saying:"The middle range of Europe - from Ireland through much of Britain, and across towards the Czech Republic - will be the most habitable part of Europe 20 to 30 years from now. We should anticipate that more people will migrate into these regions."

Elliot Morley talks to the Grimsby Labour Party

The United Kingdom, he said, were at the forefront of pressing for world action. The other members of the G8 where surprised when Blair put it on the Gleneagles G8 agenda. Gordon Brown had commissioned the Stern report 18 months ago - well before David Cameron became opposition leader.

He emphasised wind power as a source of energy in the short term. It was especially effective in the UK. In the future the use of tides and waves would be even more important. He referred to a project, currently being tested in the Humber, using both the incoming and outgoing tides to generate electricity.

Car use will continue because of its convenience and for many it will still remain a necessity; but there is scope for making them more fuel efficient - as is being ensured by regulations throughout the EU.

Better insulation of houses was urgent. He pointed to the government's Warm Front Grant Scheme, which was an excellent deal for householders ( for more information locally, see the North East Lincs website).

Although George Bush has been very cool towards Global Warming, he is getting warmer, and a number of the States, and not a few cities (towns in our language), have taken active measures to reduce CO2 emissions, to the extent that California is being sued by the US car manufacturers.

Most governments now recognise that climate change is a serious problem. China and India both do, but cannot afford to cut their ambitious development programmes. It will be necessary for the rich western countries to help them to employ modern technology to reduce carbon emissions

Russia is one country that thinks it will benefit. But even they were shocked, when they found that some permafrost tundra had melted in the summer, so they found themselves without the equivalent of roads !