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Climate Change: The Facts

Climate change is a change in the "average weather" that a region experiences and includes features such as temperature, wind patterns and precipitation.

A natural system known as the "greenhouse effect" regulates the temperature on earth. As human societies adopt increasingly sophisticated and mechanised lifestyles, the amounts of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere have been increased. As such humankind has enhanced the warming capability of the natural greenhouse effect.

It is this that is causing environmental concern.

The 1980s and 1990s are the warmest decades on record 1997 was the warmest year since meteorological records began The 10 warmest years in global meteorological history have all occurred in the past 15 years The 20th century has been the warmest globally in the last 600 years.

Climate change – what does it mean
There is growing consensus in the scientific community that man-made emissions are having an impact on the climate. In England, four of the five warmest years in the 340-year record happened in the last decade. Future emissions of greenhouse gases are likely to raise global temperatures by between 1.4 and 5.8 degrees during this century, which could have serious impact on the natural world as well as our society.
“A regional increase above present of 2.7º C, associated with a global temperature rise of about 1.5º C, may be a threshold that triggers melting of the Greenland ice-cap, while an increase in global temperatures of about 1º C is likely to lead to extensive coral bleaching. In general, surveys of the literature suggest increasing damage if the globe warms from about 1 to 3º C. Serious risk of large scale, irreversible system disruption, such as changes to the thermohaline circulation, reversal of the land carbon sink and possible destabilisation of the Antarctic ice sheets is more likely above 3º C. Such levels are well within the range of climate change projections for the century.”
From Report of the steering committee, International symposium on the stabilisation of greenhouse gases, Hadley Centre, Met Office, Exeter, 1-3 February 2005

Climate change levy

The climate change levy is a tax on the use of energy in industry, commerce and the public sector. The purpose of the levy is to encourage the efficient use of energy, not to raise tax. Offsetting cuts are made in employers' National Insurance Contributions. The money is also being used to stimulate energy users to improve their energy efficiency and to support renewable sources of energy. The levy is applied as a specific rate per nominal unit of energy, for instance 0.43 pence per kilowatt-hour for electricity. This can increase the average electricity bill by 13%

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