Porthmadog Friends debate climate change
Friends held a debate on 8 March to consider how Porthmadog town is responding to climate change
Porthmadog Friends held a workshop on climate change as part of their Quaker commitment to becoming a low carbon community.
Sixty people attended the event at Porthmadog Ganolfan on 8 March to consider how the town is responding to climate change.
Local Friend Moragh Bradshaw told the Friend that the subject ‘is particularly relevant given how much of Porthmadog is built on the flood plain’.
She said: ‘The speakers were Gareth Wyn Jones, from Bangor University, and Keith Ivens, from Natural Resources Wales.’
Moragh Bradshaw added that Keith Ivens outlined how: ‘The increasing speed and frequency of ice cap melting and severity of storms are irrefutable evidence of climate change. This was greatly aggravated by continuing emissions of carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere.’
