impacts

Counting the cost of climate change

Last edited 9 November 2000 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
9 November, 2000

Autumn 2000 brought extreme weather to Britain. Flooding was the worst and most widespread in 100 years. More than 3000 homes were flooded across Britain and our transport system was paralysed.

Extreme weather is no longer simply a natural event. The current changes to our climate cannot now be separated from the impact of fossil fuel pollution. Unless we break our addiction to fossil fuels like oil and coal we are set to experience even greater changes.

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Nature's bottom line

Last edited 31 July 2000 at 8:00am
Publication date: 
31 July, 2000

Climate protection and the carbon logic

The 1997-1998 El Nino event with its fires, floods and outbreaks of disease and pestilence, offers a glimpse of the future in a 'warmed' world and illustrates vividly the disastrous consequences that even minor fluctuations in the climate system can bring.

Scientists warn that the rates of climate change are likely to exceed any in the last 10,000 years, making it impossible for many ecosystems to adapt and survive.

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Wildlife of the Atlantic Frontier

Last edited 24 March 2000 at 9:00am
A Puffin - their habitat is under threat from oil exploitation in St Kilda, Scotland

A Puffin - their habitat is under threat from oil exploitation in St Kilda, Scotland

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Polar Bears starving due to climate change

Last edited 15 November 1999 at 9:00am
15 November, 1999

Polar bears are under threat of starvation from climate change due to melting sea ice, a new study from scientists with the Canadian Wildlife Service concludes. The study, by Canadian polar bear scientists Ian Stirling, Nicholas J. Lunn and John Iacozza, found that the bears' main food source, ringed seals which live on the ice of Hudson Bay, are becoming less accessible because of a shorter ice season.

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Greenpeace expedition finds new evidence of climate change impacts in the artic

Last edited 5 August 1999 at 8:00am
5 August, 1999

A three week Greenpeace scientific expedition to the retreating Arctic ice pack, completed on July 31st,has uncovered new evidence that climate change appears to be impacting on the wildlife and ecology of the region, particularly walrus young.

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Climate change set to devastate world's coral reefs in 30 years

Last edited 6 July 1999 at 8:00am
6 July, 1999

In 30 years the world's coral reefs will be devastated by warming tropical oceans which will 'bleach' them white and eventually kill most of them, unless projected levels of climate change are stopped, according to a new scientific report released internationally today by Greenpeace.

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