Senator Freddie Cohen said that new data will be available by the end of 2008 which will give accurate predictions about the effects of rising sea levels and global warming.
The data, which is being compiled by the UK Climate Impact Project, will enable the Environment Department to predict the future effects of climate change on areas as small as 25 km sq anywhere in the UK and Channel Islands.
Senator Cohen’s comments came after he heard a presentation by UKCIP director Roger Street at the British-Irish Council held at Stormont in Northern Ireland at the weekend.
Mr Street told ministers from the Isle of Man, Guernsey, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and England that the new database would literally predict the future in terms of climate change.
Senator Cohen said today: ‘This data will be a major update on existing scientific data and will significantly improve our understanding of the likely effect of climate change.
‘It is very accurate. It’s a probabilistic database that will be able to answer questions and give you a probability level for the effect down to 25 kilometres squared.
