There is no single issue that has brought the world together and split it apart as Climate Change has. There is no doubt that the world's climate is changing - it has never stopped changing. But what are the factors driving that change and are we partly to blame? Be sure to scroll down past the General Pages and on to the Effects and possible Solutions to this divisive issue.
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•UN Gateway to Work on Climate Change
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•At a Glance | Statistics | Causes | Consequences
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•Greenhouse Gases
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•Climate Change - BBC Site
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•Evidence | Impacts | Adaptations | Policies
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•Greenhouse Effect | Greenhouse Gases | Skeptics
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•BBC In-depth: Climate Change
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•Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
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•Climate Change (past, present and long-term periodic changes)
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•World carbon dioxide emissions data by country: China speeds ahead of the rest
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•Global Warming - Wikipedia
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•Greenhouse Effect - Wikipedia
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•Greenhouse Gases - Wikipedia
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•Ultimate Climate Change FAQ
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•Paleoclimatology
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•Climate Change Q & A - BBC
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•50 years on: The Keeling (carbon) Curve lives on
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•Guide to Climate Change - BBC
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•Mapping climate change around the world
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•Global Warming: a series of instructional movies developed by Planet Earth Science and NASA
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•Climate Change - CBC
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•Interactive world map with climate change photos
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•Climate Change - G&M
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•Climate Change Evidence - BBC
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•What are climate change feedback loops?
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•Evidence of Human-caused Climate Change Unequivocal - ENS
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•Ozone has 'strong climate effect'
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•UN Intergovernmental Panel in Climate Change Report of February 2007 - BBC
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•IPCC synthesis report: Risks and rewards of combating climate change
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•Climate change in graphics - BBC - CBC
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•Breathing Earth - FLASH presentation of CO2 emissions for every country
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•Greenhouse gas emissions by industrialized countries at new high: UNFCCC
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•Global Warming Art
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•Global warming by the numbers
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•Models 'key to climate forecasts'
Climate Change Causes
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•Alberta oilsands: Black Gold or Black Eye
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•Why it’s called ‘Dirty Oil’
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•Oilsands map
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•Eat a steak, warm the planet
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•Over 50s 'worst carbon culprits'
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•Greenhouse gases continued rise
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•Carbon emissions show sharp rise
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•2006 6th warmest year on record
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•2006 5th warmest year on record
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•Met Office: 2007 to be 'warmest on record' | BBC
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•Top 11 warmest years have all been in last 13
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•Next decade 'may see no warming'
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•Bush climate report shows greenhouse gases skyrocketing
Climate Change Skepticism
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•Climate skepticism: The top 10
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•Danish Researcher: Cosmic rays cause warming
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•'No sun link" to climate change
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•Antarctic temperatures disagree with climate models
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•How Severe Can Climate Change Become?
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•Climate change having 'worldwide, widespread effects'
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•Mapping Human Vulnerability to Climate Change
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•What’s the economic cost of climate change?
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•Met Office: Climate Change Predictions
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•Earth - melting in the heat?
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•Thawing Permafrost Likely Will Accelerate Global Warming, Study Finds
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•Hunting climate change evidence
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•Billions face climate change risk
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•Climate Change 2007: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (547KB)
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•Mapping Climate Change
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•How the world will be affected by climate change
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•Humans affect global rainfall patterns
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•Impact of Climate Change in the UK
Sea Level Rise
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•Will oceans surge 59cm this century - or 25 metres?
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•Rising tide: What is causing sea levels to rise and by how much?
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•Rising Seas Will Affect Major US Coastal Cities by 2100, New Research Finds
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•Tidal cycle could amplify global-warming-related sea-level rise
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•Flooded future looms for Bangladesh
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•Rising sea levels would submerge third of Bangladesh
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•Asia's mega-deltas in frontline from flood risk
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• Island on front line of global warming
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•Benin's Cotonou - a city slowly swallowed by waves
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•Dramatic impact of sea-level rise on Chesapeake Bay's coastal habitats
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•Climate change threatens drinking water as rising sea penetrates coastal aquifers
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•Maldives says warming threatening islands
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•Polar Ice Caps
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•The Big Melt: Climate change and Arctic sovereignty
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•Arctic Climate Change - CBC
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•Melting Polar Ice Cap - G&M
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•Melting ice leads to greater warming
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•Antarctic ice loss speeds up, nearly matching Greenland
Biomes & Ecosystems
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•Shrinking Tundra, Advancing Forests: How the Arctic Will Look by Century's End
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•Tropics expand as world warms
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•World's protected areas threatened by climate change
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•Koala groups face extinction due to changing forests
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•Climate change threatens Siberian forests
People
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•Climate change could lead to conflict, instability
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•Climate change likely to result in eco-migration
Farming
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•Adapting agriculture to climate change
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•Climate threat has plants quivering
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•Toll of climate change on world food supply could be worse than thought
Positive Effects
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•Greenland sees the bright side of warming
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•Climate change benefits UK farmers - BBC
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•Global Warming - Effects in Cities - BBC (Video)
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•NASA study finds warmer future could bring droughts
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• Animation of ideas for cutting global warming
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•Climate change solutions key to world prosperity
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•Lovelock urges ocean climate fix
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•Global climate efforts 'woeful'
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•The Kyoto Protocol Q & A
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•Will Kyoto die at Canadian hands?
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•Ecological Footprint Calculator
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•Climate Care Carbon Calculator
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•Tackling climate change: Families and carbon footprints
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•BBC Guide to Climate Change
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•Want to reduce your food-related carbon footprint? What you eat is more important than where it came from
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• The carbon footprint of a crisp (potato chip)
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•Forest Protection is climate protection
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•ecoEnergy for personal vehicles
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•EU sets emission targets to fight climate change
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•Capturing carbon and putting underground - CBC
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•The Carbon Trade Q & A - BBC
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•Carbon offsets deliver where it matters
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•Care needed with carbon offsets (tree-planting) - BBC
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•Facts & Figures about carbon use - CBC
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•Clean coal technology - how it works - BBC
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•Japan, US eye emission-free coal plant
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•Could iron fertilization of oceans combat global warming?
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•Ocean fertilization 'fix' for global warming discredited by research
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