Scientists are using Rochdale lamp posts to help monitor climate change.
A number of sensors have been placed on lamp posts in the town centre to allow researchers at Manchester University to measure differences in temperature over the next three years.
They hope the SCORCHIO project (Sustainable Cities: Options for Responding to Climate Change Impacts and Outcomes) will give an insight into how the climate is changing in the region and what measures can be taken to combat it.
Councillor Pauline Maguire, cabinet member for environment and sustainability, said: "Climate change will affect us all.
"It affects us already and it's important we plan for what this might mean for residents of the borough.
"I very much welcome this collaboration with Manchester University.
"This project will give us access to local data that will inform our decision making in years to come and in particular what climate change might mean in a town centre environment."
Lead researcher Dr Susan Lee will advise local planners and developers how to modify buildings and the environment to make life more comfortable for people in a future warmer climate.
Temperature measurements are also being taken across Greater Manchester from cars with sensors attached, along with readings from a plane flying over the region.
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R Marcus (13/03/2010 at 12:33)
Orb, Rochdale (14/03/2010 at 23:39)
Oooooh dear! More academics looking to secure future funding!
I wonder where they have got the statistics to prove this "warming"; I wonder if it's yet more tenure/funding seeking vested interest, or maybe the increasingly discredited IPCC. And haven't they changed "global warming" to "climate change" to cover all the bases?
Never mind - no matter what happens I'll doubtless have to pay more tax, drive a rubbish car - or preferably get stabbed on a urine soaked, chav infested bus, and watch while our industry fails and is moved to China (to a factory owned by one of the IPCC panel members who can get a £600million subsidy off the EU) because production becomes more expensive due to .... carbon related tax....
Peter Pan, Never Never Land (17/03/2010 at 11:23)
derek mulldoon (17/03/2010 at 22:46)
Mancunians overwhelmingly rejected the congestion charge in 2008. It was only a matter of time before this corrupt marxist government started pursuing other ways of stealing taxpayers money to fund technologies that will their every movement.
"'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded."
- Friedrich von Hayek
rosina mason-parker (20/03/2010 at 01:34)