Your World Needs You to be a Climate Champion!

We need Climate Champions with green carbon footprints to save the world!

So, we've seen that scientists have established that Climate Change and Global Warming have been caused by people, people like you and me who are just doing what everyone else is doing without realising the harm they've been doing.

If we have caused it, we could stop it, in theory. In practice we would have to make some very serious changes to our lives to stop Global Warming entirely and most of us might find that too difficult.

If Global Warming were a dangerous wild animal running towards us some of us would be running away as fast as we can and others would be standing their ground preparing to fight and kill the animal.

Global Warming is not such an obvious threat or so easy to see. We could try to imagine Global Warming as a gigantic dragon curled around our planet.  Think of Smaug in the Hobbit, lying asleep on the dwarves' treasure hoard. Every time we fly or travel in our car we feed the Global Warming dragon encouraging it to breathe fire and cause droughts and wild fires, or to thrash its tail and cause severe storms, hurricanes and flooding.

Global Warming is like an invisible dragon threatening our world

Now we are aware of the threat Global Warming is to the world as we know it, surely we want to do everything we can to fight it by reducing the amount of CO2 we produce and thereby shrinking our personal carbon footprint.

We live in an age that needs heroes and Climate Champions to join in the fight to protect our beautiful world for our children and our grandchildren. We have to stop feeding the dragon!

The most effective way any of us can reduce our carbon footprint is to fly less often. If everyone took fewer flights, airline companies wouldn’t burn as much jet fuel, so they'd send tons less CO2 into the atmosphere.

Global Warming And Its Causes

Floods in South East England December 2013
Flooding is one of many undesirable effects of Global Warming

I wrote a Brief Introduction to Climate Change the other day and tried to keep things short and simple while telling you the main facts.

Today I want to give you the main facts about Global Warming as that is what is causing Climate Change. I shall try and keep it short and simple, too.

Climate Change is caused by Global Warming and Global Warming has come about because too many Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) have been into the atmosphere. People burning fossil fuels like coal and petrol have been responsible for the increase in GHGs, which scientists tell us has been happening since the Industrial Revolution.

The Purpose of Greenhouse Gases