I’ve just returned from having an opportunity to brief the Manchester Report panel and it went very well. I will give a fuller report after returning home tomorrow. In the meantime, I wanted to point you to some stories that are already written in the UK Guardian on the Manchester Report that describe the scope of the activity and the first day’s presentations:

UK Guardian: The Manchester Report

UK Guardian: Can cloud-making ships, giant algae “stomachs” and the lessons of the Serengeti save us?