Including the closely related terms climate change, climate change, and climate.
… Causes of Climate Change 4 2.3 The Impacts of Climate Change 5 2.4 National Policy Drivers…
… Financial Strategy.1 1.2 Vision Slough Borough Council aspires to have a carbon neutral and energy efficient corporate estate, fleet and workforce. The Council will play a responsible leadership role to ensure that Slough has a sustainable future, to contribute to the United Kingdom’s Net Zero target under the Climate Change Act, and to meet with the future economic challenges of local…
… evidence to show that climate change is happening. Measurements show that the average temperature at the Earth’s surface has risen by about 1°C since the pre- industrial period. Seventeen of the 18 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century and each of the last three decades have been hotter than the previous one. This change in temperature has not been the same everywhere; the increase…
… and glaciers • rising sea levels • more extreme weather events Source: Climate Change Explained DECC website https://www.gov.uk/guidance/climate- change-explained#climate-change-now 2.2 Causes of Climate Change Rising levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, such as methane, in the atmosphere create a ‘greenhouse effect’, trapping the Sun’s…
… energy and causing the Earth, and in particular the oceans, to warm. Heating of the oceans accounts for over nine-tenths of the trapped energy. Scientists have known about this greenhouse effect since the 19th Century. The higher the amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the warmer the Earth becomes. Recent climate change is happening largely as a result of this warming…