cc: "Bye, Helen" <helen.bye@metoffice.gov.uk>, <mark.gibbs@metoffice.gov.uk>, "Caroline Daniell" <caroline.daniell@lighthillrisknetwork.org>
date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 20:19:39 -0000
from: "Myles Allen" <allen@atm.ox.ac.uk>
subject: RE: Lighthill Risk network - propsed event on climate change
to: "Howard Cattle" <hyc@noc.soton.ac.uk>, "Michael Davey" <mkd@math.ucl.ac.uk>, <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>

   Hi Howard,
   Sorry to have been slow responding: it's been a busy term.
   I talked to one major insurance company about how the science of
   attribution of extreme weather events to greenhouse gas
   emissions is firming up, and its potential implications for
   liability, D&O insurance etc. This might make an interesting additional
   topic, particularly if you could get a lawyer in (Richard Lord, QC,
   of Brick Court Chambers, would be ideal).
   Myles
   -----Original Message-----
   From: Howard Cattle [[1]mailto:hyc@noc.soton.ac.uk]
   Sent: Mon 03/03/2008 16:32
   To: Myles Allen; Michael Davey; p.jones@uea.ac.uk
   Cc: 'Bye, Helen'; mark.gibbs@metoffice.gov.uk; Caroline Daniell
   Subject: Lighthill Risk network - propsed event on climate change
   Dear all - sorry hadn't meant to send this to you again.  It was
   intended for Anna Pirani who works for me, but I hit the send button
   too soon!
   Howard
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   Anna - here is the Lighthill email I referred to.  Comments welcome.
   Howard
   Dear Myles, Mike and Phil
   You will recall that I contacted you some time back asking if you
   would be willing to take up membership of Lighthill Risk Network's
   Climate Change Panel.  In the event, Lighthill have decided to
   proceed on the basis of organizing events on climate issues and
   insurance rather than having formal panel meetings.  It would however
   still be useful to have you as a "sounding board"  for this and
   future events and from this perspective I would be grateful for your
   views and feedback on the tentative programme for the first such
   event (attached) which Lighthill have put together in consultation
   with a group of their members.
   It would also be useful to have any suggestions you might have for
   speakers (you many, of course volunteer yourselves!) and suggestions
   on what might fit under "another peril to be identified.  Here,
   Lighthill are looking for perils of interest to insurers, which might
   impact them on the 5-10 year timescale and which are the subject of
   new research.
   Lighthill would like to hold this event around the end of April or
   (more likely) early May.  Time to organize it is fairly short
   therefore.  If you could get any comments on this back to me over the
   next few days (before Thursday if possible) it would be very helpful
   (as would an indication of your own interest in attending or speaking
   at the meeting).
   I'm also copying in the Met Office contacts with Lighthill (Mark &
   Helen) for any comments they may have.
   Thanks in anticipation.
   Regards
   Howard
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