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Top 10 Reasons Why CLIMATE CHANGE Is NO LONGER A Debate

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Are we being affected by climate change locally?

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Mantle Slipping-Authentic Second Sun Capture

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Video showing the River Don at Sprotborough, 4 mile upstream from Doncaster town during the 2007 floods.

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What happens if the world warms up by 2%?

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What happens if the world warms up by 2%?

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Climate Change: What Happens If The World Warms Up By 2°C?

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Rising ocean levels - extinction of more animal species

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Rising ocean levels - extinction of more animal species

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The first mammal has become extinct because of climate change

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A small rodent that lived only on a single island off Australia is likely the world's first mammal to become a casualty of climate change, scientists report this week.

The Bramble Cay melomys ( Melomys rubicola) seems to have disappeared from its home in the eastern Torres Strait of the Great Barrier Reef, the scientists say. The animal was last seen by a fisherman in 2009, but failed attempts to trap any in late 2014 have prompted scientists to say it is likely extinct.

Also called the mosaic-tailed rat, the rodent is named after its home on Bramble Cay, a small island that is at most 10 feet (three meters) above sea level.

The rats were first seen by Europeans on the island in 1845, and there were several hundred there as of 1978. But since 1998, the part of the island that sits above high tide has shrunk from 9.8 acres to 6.2 acres (four hectares to 2.5 hectares). That means the island's vegetation has been shrinking, and the rodents have lost about 97 percent of their habitat.

"The key factor responsible for the extirpation of this population was almost certainly ocean inundation of the low-lying cay, very likely on multiple occasions, during the last decade, causing dramatic habitat loss and perhaps also direct mortality of individuals," writes the team, led by Ian Gynther from Queensland's Department of Environment and Heritage Protection.

"For low-lying islands like Bramble Cay, the destructive effects of extreme water levels resulting from severe meteorological events are compounded by the impacts from anthropogenic climate change-driven sea-level rise," the authors add.

Around the world, sea level has risen by almost eight inches (20 centimeters) between 1901 and 2010, a rate unparalleled in the last 6,000 years. And around the Torres Strait, sea level has risen at almost twice the global average rate between 1993 and 2014. ( Learn more about rising seas.)

This small mammal is therefore only the first of many species that face significant risk due to a warming climate, the authors warn.

"We knew something had to be first, but this is still stunning news," says Lee Hannah, a senior scientist for climate change biology with Conservation International.

Hannah has published work suggesting that one in five species may be at risk from climate change. Those on small islands and mountains are most threatened, since they have few places to go when things change, he notes.

"Certainly some species will benefit from climate change, but most will see reduced ranges," adds Hannah.

Still, people can work to mitigate the worst impacts, he says, by designing protected areas that can accomodate changing climate, by relocating wildlife as needed, and by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

"This species could have been saved," he says.

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First Mammal Species Goes Extinct Due to Climate Change

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A small rodent that lived only on a single island off Australia is likely the world's first mammal to become a casualty of climate change, scientists report this week. The Bramble Cay melomys ( Melomys rubicola) seems to have disappeared from its home in the eastern Torres Strait of the Great Barrier Reef, the scientists say.

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Bleaching and loss of habitat caused by Climate Change

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The Great Barrier Reef: a catastrophe laid bare

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Australia's natural wonder is in mortal danger. Bleaching caused by climate change has killed almost a quarter of its coral this year and many scientists believe it could be too late for the rest.

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Manmade climate change was partly responsible for Storm Desmond's torrential rain which devastated parts of Scotland, the Lake District and Northern Ireland, scientists have concluded.

The researchers at Oxford University and the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) calculated that climate change had made the flooding event 40% more likely, with the estimate of the increased likelihood ranging between 5% and 80%.

"The increase we found is small but robust," said Dr Friederike Otto from the environmental change institute at Oxford University. "Ten years ago we could could never make a link to climate change with a specific weather event. Now we can do it in real time. A positive attribution for an extreme rainfall event like Desmond is still rare."

Storm Desmond dumped 341mm (13.4 in) of rain in Honister, Cumbria, within 24 hours. This may be verified as a national record when more data is received next month. More than 5,000 homes across the region were flooded and 60,000 were left without power.

The team used the combined computing power of thousands of desktop machines in people's homes around the world that have been grouped together by the weather@home project. . The team ran tens of thousands of simulations of the weather event either with or without climate change to work out how much more likely it was in a world with global warming. Three different methodologies led to roughly the same conclusion of a 40% increase in risk.

The research, which has been submitted to a journal for publication next year but is not yet peer-reviewed, also showed that it is now more likely for such intense rainfall to occur again - closer to one in 70 years than one in 100 years.

The analyses show that climate change has affected the risk of floods in northern England and southern Scotland, but the scientists cautioned that risk is also affected by exposure and vulnerability, such as the quality of flood defences.

The analysis of a single extreme weather event was possible in Britain because of the existence of detailed climate models and regional maps, but it is still impossible to tell whether extreme weather events in most developing countries can be attributed to climate change. In the last month, more than 300 people died in Chennai, India, as a result of extreme rains and flooding.
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Storm Desmond flooding partly due to climate change, scientists conclude

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Manmade climate change was partly responsible for Storm Desmond's torrential rain which devastated parts of Scotland, the Lake District and Northern Ireland, scientists have concluded. The researchers at Oxford University and the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) calculated that climate change had made the flooding event 40% more likely, with the estimate of the increased likelihood ranging between 5% and 80%.

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Read the information on this webpage to find out more

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We're facing the biggest environmental challenge our generation has ever seen. No matter what we're passionate about, something we care about will be affected by climate change.

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Watch this short video showing some of the effects of Global warming

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The Effects of Climate Change Short Film (TAD)

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TAD or The Art of Disappearing Short Film on climate change. None of the recordings are mine. The film is comprised of many different clippings.