Climate Change?

In the 1960’s scientists working in labs around the world were discovering that the carbon dioxide created by human activity had the potential to cause a warming effect on the planet. A subsequent prediction asserted that we would begin to experience these effects, most noticeably in our weather as we entered the twenty-first century. Some eighty years later we now know that ‘warming effect’ as climate change. We’ve gone from the theory to the reality – fairly quickly as it happens. In fact ten of the hottest years on record have been recorded since the year 2000.

There are almost daily reminders from across the world that our planet is getting hotter and that human behaviour is having an impact on our planet in a host of ways. For example increasing incidences of wildfires, reports of famine and drought, as well as the retreat of ice in the polar-regions, and landslides caused by soil erosion or flash floods.

The fact is, climate change is here and unless we all do something about it through the implementation of global policies and making individual lifestyle changes, our planet will change forever.