An ordinary meeting of the Society took place at the Royal Southampton Yacht Cub on 11th January 2017. The President, Dr Keightley, was in the chair. After remembering Drs John Atwell and John Glanville who had recently died she introduced the speaker Dr John Gould who spoke to the title “Climate Change - questions and answers from the deep” . How do you approach a subject so big he asked? He followed the changes through his lifetime. An early memory was visiting the Festival of Britain aged 8 in which there was a model of the city of London that demonstrated at the press of a button what happened if the polar ice caps melted - the City flooded to a depth of 250feet - now considered an exaggeration. Later as a student at King’s College he helped on a research ship to measure sea temperatures worldwide.Later he joined the National Institute of Oceanography to measure deep currents in the Oceans. He described the early measuring devices made from common materials [such as scaffolding pipe] to the present sophisticated satellites devoted to Oceanography and the 9000 Argo measuring devices floating in the oceans of the world. He said that CO2 levels have been measured back to 400,000 years from ice cores. Levels in the last 5 decades had steadily risen and were now at their highest for half a million years and his graphs showed that the world temperature rise echoed the rise in CO2 and fossil fuel burning. This is reflected in the oceans too. Temperature measurements to 1000 metres deep show a similar rise since 1955. The consequences of this are a rise in sea levels partly due to expansion and partly ice cap melt. The temperature and increasing acidity of the sea affects plankton - which are the equivalent of the rainforests in the conversion of CO2 to Oxygen. Most of the sea ice in the Arctic has gone. Sea ice protects and insulates the sea from the climate above it. The result is more evaporation and more rain and a change in the currents. He said that a change in the gulf stream could be devastating for Europe. The President thankedDr Gould for his interesting talk and there being no other business the meeting was closed at 9.55pm.