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Climate Change Websites
The UK Met Office
The Uk Met Office's guide to Climate Change. Good for statistics, and key ideas about climate change in the UK.
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climatechange/
The BBC
The BBC has an accessible overview of Climate Change. Divided up into easy to follow sections.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/climate/
Act on CO2
An online calculator that lets you work out your carbon footprint. How much are you contributing to climate change?
http://actonco2.direct.gov.uk/index.html
The Carbon Trust
Examples of how groups and individuals can cut their carbon emissions to save both energy and money.
http://www.carbontrust.co.uk/energy
UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP)
More information about climate change, particularly the causes, impacts and potential solutions.
http://www.ukcip.org.uk/
Greenpeace / Friends of the Earth
An account of climate change from the viewpoint of a significant global pressure groups. These include the strategies that they are adopting to reduce climate change.
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/climate/
http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/climate/
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
A group of scientists from around the world who are working together in 3 different working groups to assess climate change. The three working groups are:- 1) The physical scientific aspects of climate change; 2) Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability; 3) Mitigation of Climate Change. More simply; causes, impacts, management.
http://www.ipcc.ch/ |