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Climate change to blame for more Atlantic hurricanes
Posted by bex on 30 July 2007.
The aftermath of Hurricane Andrew.
After a study last week confirmed the link between climate change and increased rainfall in the UK, a new study published yesterday has made the connection between climate change and a doubling in the number of Atlantic hurricanes in an average season over the past 100 years.
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Climate change: the untold story
Posted by bex on 13 September 2006.
It has facts, it has suspense, it even has Futurama clips: Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth launches in the UK today, bringing with it mind-blowing descriptions of the destruction facing earth unless we pull our acts together in the next 10 years.
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Cause for concern: extreme weather and climate change explained
Help stop dangerous climate change
Counting the cost of climate change
Publication date: November 2000
Summary
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.
Nature's bottom line
Climate protection and the carbon logic
Publication date: July 2000
Summary
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.