Climate change is real and without urgent action it will devastate life on earth.
Hundreds of millions of people, particularly the world's poorest and most vulnerable, will be put at severe risk of drought, floods, starvation, and disease. By the middle of the century up to one third of land-based species could face extinction.
This section provides a simple introduction to the basicsof climate change, the key scientific evidenceand the potentially massive impactson life as we know it. It also explains the action we need to take to stop climate change before it's too late.
This section explains the "greenhouse effect" and how our burining of fossil fuels is increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, thus trapping more of the sun's heat and warming the planet.
This section introduces the overwhelming evidence that scientists now have that climate change is taking place and is caused directly by our day-to-day actions. There is no "maybe" any more, this is for real.
This section describes the changes we've already seen as a result of climate change. It then introduces the vastly more shocking potential impacts which experts predict will happen unless we change our behaviour.
This section explains the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions which we all need to achieve together if we are to prevent the most devastating effects of climate change before it's too late.
What are they saying about it
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