Fashion model JERRY HALL: My message to Gordon Brown - climate change is the biggest threat the world has ever seen | Mail Online

Certainly it was my children who got me thinking about climate change.

Like a lot of people I probably had my head in the sand about the issue. It seemed a bit overwhelming and I remember being a little confused by the debate about whether climate change was man-made or not.

One day Georgia May came home from school and asked me: 'What can we do about it?' To answer such a question you need to be well informed, so I began reading all that I could about the subject.

And that's how I realised pretty much all scientists now agree climate change is caused by the expanding population and all those fossil fuels we've been burning for 250 years.

Weather Station Data: raw or adjusted? « Watts Up With That?

It is important to note that the graph on the bottom shows a positive adjustment of 0.5°F spanning from 1940 to 1999. The agreed upon “global warming signal” is said to be 1.3°F (.74C) over the last century.

Great Lakes ice cover shows climate change's existence -- and its complexity - Metro - cleveland.com

"Ice is forming on average later in season and dissipating earlier in season," said Leshkevich, even taking into account annual fluctuation like this year's heavy ice. "But the trend line shows the downward truth."
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That increased evaporation is also lowering lake levels, however. Some studies, for example, project that Lake Erie could lose up to 15 percent of its surface area over the next 30 years.