Ask Chris Rapley, the ebullient physicist and director of the Science Museum in London, why he seems more sanguine about our prospects of taming climate change than many of his peers, and he'll tell you about the day he first toured the museum's library and archives.

Surrounded by the thousands of designs and patent applications that traced the great Victorian lurch into modernity, he was struck by the power of human ingenuity. "It seemed clear that if we could somehow focus all that creativity and energy on clean energy then we'll be OK."

Anyone watching an hour or two of the "hearings" in Manchester last weekend on which this report was based could not fail to have been similarly cheered.

Read the complete article here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/13/manchester-report-clim...

Our opinion:

An excellent feature in the Guardian Newspaper here in the UK today. Really worth a read. And it closes with a very relevant question: "Here we lay out the best ideas ( on Climate Change) that our net brought in. Now, Mr Miliband (Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in the UK), what will you do with them?"

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