New UK attempt to capture carbon

A renewed attempt to develop ways of making power stations greener has been unveiled by the UK government.

For the second time in five years, £1bn will be offered for schemes to trap and bury carbon dioxide.

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Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers

Click HERE to see the impact of climate change

on the glaciers of the Himalayas...

Read a related article from The Guardian by

clicking here

UN Climate Conference: The Countdown to Copenhagen

"In 331 days' time, 15,000 officials from 200 countries will gather in the Danish capital with 1 goal: to find a solution to global warming."

To read more on this crucial topic clink on the link to The Independent below:

Swiss Glaciers "in full retreat"

"Swiss glaciers are melting away at an accelerating rate and many will vanish this century if climate projections are correct, two new studies suggest."

Click on the link below to read more from the BBC website:

Climate Change: The Carbon Atlas

Click on the image above to be taken to

The Guardian's

excellent interactive carbon atlas.

Obama brings US in from the cold

In a landmark speech, the next president pledges to revive Kyoto Protocol and end American isolationism over climate change.

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Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

Carbon Dioxide and climate change...is CCS the answer?

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(remember, though, focus on the chimney not the cooling towers...grrrr...!)

Arctic Sea Ice: more melting than ever before...

Melting ice makes new Arctic border

The rate of melting of Arctic sea ice is greater than ever before.

Watch this BBC VIDEO CLIP to learn more about ice melt and the implications for border control, international disputes and, of course, further climate change...

Bali Climate Change Conference: the basics...

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Scientists identify 'tipping points' of climate change

Nine ways in which the Earth could be tipped into a potentially dangerous state that could last for many centuries have been identified by scientists investigating how quickly global warming could run out of control...

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Climate Change - Y11 Activity

The syllabus states that:

"Students should be aware of the conflicting nature of the evidence for and against global warming".

Your task is to produce a report entitled

"The Greenhouse Effect:

Fact or Fiction?"

• Begin by...including an introduction in which you explain about the NATURAL Greenhouse Effect and then discuss the ENHANCED Greenhouse Effect (diagrams would be useful here)
• Then...state the evidence from the scientific community that i) climate change is happening and the enhanced greenhouse effect is fact and ii) climate change is not happening and the enhanced greenhouse effect is fiction (think carefully about layout and presentation - make your text accessible to the reader via bullet points, tables, diagrams etc.)
• Finally...evaluate this evidence and come to your own conclusion using the evidence to support what you are saying.

Use the following PAPER RESOURCES:

1 GeoFile 386
2 GeoActive 202

Use the following WEBSITES:

Background Information:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/climate/

Evidence FOR:

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_environment/global_warming/index.cfm

http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/climate/issues/climate_change/index.html

http://www.worldwildlife.org/climate/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/0,12374,782494,00.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/warming/

http://www.climatehotmap.org/euroruss.html

Evidence AGAINST:

http://space.newscientist.com/article/mg16221923.000-greenhouse-sceptics.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/in_depth/629/629/7074601.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_467000/467007.stm

http://www.john-daly.com/

http://epa.gov/climatechange/index.html