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View Met Office's Interactive Climate Map - lots of detailed info on effects
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The Copenhagen Climate Change Summit this December represents the best chance we have of reaching a deal to reverse current emissions trends in time to prevent climate chaos.
This is the first in a series of videos, Voices for Change, which talks to some of those who're already suffering aroung the world as a result of climate change. Greenpeace will be publishing more in the weeks running up to Copenhagen.
Scientists have been looking for ways of modifying the Earth's environment to control global warming - it's known as geo-engineering.
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On the strength of the book represented in the above website, David J.C. MacKay FRS, Professor of Natural Philosophy at Cambridge University, has been appointed Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
This is the principal resource now being used by UK government, businesses and other groups.
Investors happy about announcements from China and the US
At the Copenhagen climate change conference, the winners could be renewable energy technology providers and early corporate adopters of emissions reduction measures, investment specialists predict. 27/11/2009
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Oxfam GB - 25 years on from the 1984 famine in Ethiopia that killed one million people, the food crisis in East Africa continues. With a new report out today Oxfam highlights the need to rethink food aid. Speaking as the 'face of hope' for Ethiopia, survivor Birhan Woldu, tells us why she agrees.
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For most people in the UK, climate change feels like something that will happen at some undefined point in the future - to our children and grandchildren's generation.
For the people of the Carteret Islands in Papua New Guinea, it's a bit more serious than "one of those summers". As the sea level rises, their drinking water and crops have been poisoned by salt. The 1000 Islanders are packing up and their home abandoned to the waves.
They are the first entire people to officially be evacuated because of climate change.
For Ursula Rakova, seeing her ancestral homeland disappear is a hard reality. As she says, "Climate change is not just about statistics. Climate change is not just about science. Climate change is about human rights."
Ian Sullivan is a campaigner at Oxfam
On Monday 14th December 2009, BBC4 at 10pm, You can watch The Age of Stupid.
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The Age of Stupid is a 2008 film by Director Franny Armstrong ( McLibel, Drowned Out) and first-time producer Lizzie Gillett. It is a co-production between Franny's company Spanner Films and Executive Producer 10:10 campaign.
Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?
The film was released in 2009 and became one of the most talked-about films of the year. It also spawned the hugely-successful 10:10 campaign.
On Monday 14th December 2009, BBC4 at 10pm, You can watch The Age of Stupid.
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The Copenhagen climate negotiations this week must yield an ambitious, sweeping agreement to capitalize on pledges by countries to fight global warming, UN climate chief Yvo de Boer said on Sunday. More...
More than 50,000 people came together to demand action on climate change on Saturday at The Wave, the biggest ever UK climate change march. The Wave and called for the Government to take much more urgent and effective action. More...
“There are those who will suggest that moving towards clean energy will destroy our economy – when it’s the system we currently have that endangers our prosperity and prevents us from creating millions of jobs,” Barack Obama said in a speech at technical university MIT, coinciding with the opening of the Senate’s hearings on the bill.
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