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What is Global warming?
What are Climate Change and Global Warming?
Climate change and global warming are pretty much exactly what they say. Climate change is literally a change in the climate of a given area, including changes in its average temperatures, wind patterns and amounts of rainfall. One of the results of climate change is that temperatures are rising all over the world, which is known as global warming. In fact, the ten hottest years ever recorded have all occurred since 1990, and experts predict that in the next century average temperatures around the world could rise as much as an average of 5.8oC. More
What Causes Climate Change and Global Warming?
Scientists know that when greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane are released into the atmosphere they contribute to the problem. The United Nations has attempted to limit these harmful gases with the Kyoto Protocol, a set of guidelines that asks countries to meet a target of reduce greenhouse gases to a level that will not interfere with the climate or cause further change. Since signing the Kyoto Protocol, the UK's greenhouse gas emissions have indeed been reduced, but there is still a long way to go.
How are Climate Change and Global Warming Affecting the UK?
The UK is in the enviable position of not being relatively well protected from their effects of climate change and global warming, but we have been and will continue to experience warmer year round temperatures, more rainfall in the winter and less in the summer, less snow in the winter, and higher surrounding sea levels that could lead to flooding in coastal areas. Unfortunately many areas of the world are not so well off and remain vulnerable to effects such as floods and droughts that will drastically alter their lifestyles and food supplies.
What Can We Do to Limit Climate Change and Global Warming?
The UK government has already taken a big step by agreeing to, and carrying through on, reducing greenhouse gas emission levels but we still have a target of a 20% reduction by the year 2010.
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Wednesday 23 May 2012
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