Climate Change

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Climate change

WWF Campaign Climate Change

19 October, 1999 Latest State-of-the-art climate scenarios show futures to avoid.
New studies show the effects that global warming could have over the coming decades.

15 September, 1999 Global Warming could spawn Atlantic super-hurricanes.
Hurricanes like Floyd could become more common unless governments do more to fight global warming.

The physical and biological evidence for global warming is now overwhelming. The five warmest years since the 15th century have all been in the 1990s. 1998 was the warmest year of the millennium, under the influence of rising concentrations of global warming gases which have now reached their highest level in 420,000 years. During 1998, natural catastrophes claimed the lives of about 50,000 people and resulted in economic losses exceeding US$ 90bn. Windstorms and floods accounted for 85 per cent of these losses. Coral reefs around the world "suffered the most extensive and severe bleaching and subsequent mortality in modern record" during 1998. Coinciding with the highest recorded tropical sea surface temperatures, this was "likely a consequence of a steadily rising baseline of marine temperatures, driven by anthropogenic global warming." In June 1999, scientists reported that global warming means "the ability of our oceans to support life as it does now may be in the process of being permanently altered." 

Global warming could have far worse impacts in store, as new studies for WWF show. Major cities including New York, Miami and Tokyo face flooding from rising sea levels. The survival of corals making up Australia’s Great Barrier Reef would be threatened by warming seas. Large areas of the Amazon would become more susceptible to forest fires as drought affects sections of south and central America. Forests in Russia and Canada will also be at risk from extremely rapid warming, and face increasing problems from fire and pest attack. Global warming could well mean world-renowned wetlands are lost and protected areas for species which are already endangered could be rendered useless.

WWF Global/ Regional/ National Scenarios.
The Climatic Research Unit is preparing a set of 17 regional/national climate change scenario leaflets on behalf of WWF. These scenarios draw upon newly constructed global observed climate data sets, new greenhouse gas emissions scenarios, and results from the most recent Global Climate Model experiments. The scenarios encompass a range of future climate outcomes and draw attention to possible changes in future climate that have particular relevance for biodiversity. The leaflets have been prepared and designed by Mike Hulme and Nicola Sheard of the Climatic Research Unit

Bangladesh's etc. flooding threat.

Ocean streams delta's threats (1 year period).

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Climate Change

Greenpeace: Solar Revolution Press Pack

 

Greenpeace steps up global campaign to stop oil exploration and prevent dangerous climate change
The oil industry is predicted by industry analysts to spend $94 billion globally in 1998 on oil and gas exploration and production, which represents an 11 per cent increase on last year and is the second highest growth in spending during the last decade. (1)

 

Avoiding Global Warming

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International Global Change Research Programs
IGBP	The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP)
IHDP	The International Human Dimensions Programma on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)
WCRP	The World Climate Research Program (WCRP)
National / Regional Research Programs
IGBP	The Dutch National Research Programme on Global Air Pollution and Climate Change (NOP)
CGCP	The Canadian Global Change Programme
KNAW	Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences KNAW
GER	Global Environmental Research Office (UK) (closed on 31 March 1998; site still exists)
ProClim	Forum for Climate and Global Change (Switzerland)
German National Programme	Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (Germany)
APN	The Asia-Pacific Network Clim
GEC	ESRC Global Environmental Change Programme (UK)
UK CIP	UK Climate Impacts Programme
USGCRP	United States Global Change Research Program
CCB Wageningen	Research Programme Climate Change and Biosphere
Other International Organisations
Climate Ark	The best Climate and Energy resources on the Internet
IPCC	The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
UNEP	The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)
Climate Change Information Kit	Everything you always wanted to know about.... climate change
FCCC	The Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC)
WMO	The World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Global Climate Change Digest

June 1999 Global Climate Change Digest.
A Guide to Information on Greenhouse Gases and Ozone Depletion

 

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