The climate is changing. It’s time to ask questions.
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The climate is changing.It’s time to ask questions.
The climate is changing
Greenhouse gases
The Guardian
Temperature rising
Hadley Centre
Impacts at home
Impacts globally
Katrina: a warning
Biodiversity at risk
Temperature rising
Hadley Centre
Does Blair agree?
Climate change is… the world’s greatest environmental challenge … so far reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence
September 2004
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Climate Change Bill
sets an annual target for cuts in carbon dioxide emissions – three per cent every year requires annual reports on progress to Parliament
holds Government to account if they fall behind
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Three per cent per year …
80% by2050
Annual reports
We’ve done this before
Is the Government doing enough about
climate change?
73% NONOP survey for Friends of the Earth. May 2005
What can I do?
1. Sign our petition atwww.thebigask.com
2. Ask your MP to support our Climate Change Bill: complete a postcard, write them a letter, oremail through www.thebigask.com
3. Spread the word
What can I do?
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More information
www.thebigask.com
Freephone0808 800 1111
Your local group
Friends of the Earth