Climate Change

The natural greenhouse effect is vital to the existence of life on Earth. It is well documented that levels of greenhouse gases are increasing and the planet is warming up. We have already seen more extreme weather conditions, glaciers melting, species dying out and land becoming uninhabitable.

Below are links to websites, reports and films which provide more information about climate change and what we can do about it.

Click here for a short government film about climate change.

Visit this link to see clips from the BBC's programme, Climate Change - Britain under Threat, with Sir David Attenborough. This programme was the result of a 2006 experiment to gather information about climate change in the UK by the BBC.

Click here for the latest report from the UK Climate Impacts Programme.

Click here for Lewes District Council's Climate Change Strategy.

Woking Council has a climate change strategy here.

Friends of the Earth have lots on information about climate change, what they and what we can do about it.

Click here for the Woodland Trust's position on climate change.

A link to the Stern review.

A link to the government's draft Climate Change Bill.

A piece on climate change and peak oil by Ian Eiloart with a collection of links to wikipedia entries.


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