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Impacts Database The most comprehensive climate data base on the web, complete with search engine.

The Science of Climate Change The natural greenhouse effect keeps the planet 33°C warmer than it would otherwise be, allowing the earth to sustain life. Over the last 200 years human activities have resulted in emissions of greenhouse gases, (primarily carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels), which have altered the composition of the atmosphere and caused an ‘enhanced’ greenhouse effect. As a result the earth’s temperature is rising and this, in turn, is changing the climate.

Climate Change and the World's Coral Reefs This scientific study concludes that if climate change is not stopped, coral bleaching is set to steadily increase in frequency and intensity all over the world until it occurs annually by 2030-2070.

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El Nino As the impacts of what may be prove to be the strongest El Niño event this century start to bite across the world, there is growing evidence that we may be beginning to witness the effects of human-induced climate change.

Desertification Water shortages and poor harvests during the droughts of the early 1990s exposed the acute vulnerability of the Mediterranean region to climatic extremes. Against this backdrop, the prospect of a major climate change brought about by human activities is a source of growing concern, raising serious questions over the sustainability of the region.

Fossil Fuels and Climate Protection - The Carbon Logic Preventing dangerous climate change will involve limiting both the rate and magnitude of climate change over the next century to levels that natural and human systems can tolerate without significant damage. This report shows the implications for overall fossil fuel use, in the form of a ‘carbon budget’, over the next century if the global community is to prevent dangerous climate change.