“The evidence that climate change is happening is completely unequivocal... The later governments leave tackling climate change, the harder it will be to combat... The variation we are seeing in temperature or rainfall is double the rate of the average. That suggests that we are going to have more droughts, we are going to have more floods, we are going to have more sea surges and we are going to have more storms. These are the sort of changes that are going to affect us in quite a short timescale” GovernmentSeeingSeaHappeningsEvidenceHarderClimateRateClimate ChangeAverageStormCombatFloodTemperatureVariationDroughtTacklingRainfallUnequivocal Author:John Beddington
“Extreme weather like the droughts in Russia, China and Brazil and the flooding in Pakistan and Australia [in 2010] have contributed to a level of food price volatility we haven't seen since the oil crisisof 40 years ago. Unfortunately, this could be just a taste of things to come because in the next few decades the build-up of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere could greatly increase the risk of droughts, flooding, pest infestation and water scarcity for agriculture systems already under tremendous stress.” YearsNextWaterLevelsRiskHavensTasteYears AgoIncreaseStressChinaExtremesOilDecadesRussiaWeatherAtmosphereGlobal WarmingAustraliaAgriculturePakistanBrazilScarcityDroughtGreenhousesGreenhouse GasesFloodingPestsVolatilityExtreme Weather Author:John Beddington
