Climate Change Information

This website is about climate change - something that is being intensified by human activities. This is the most important issue that faces us in the world today. The pages describe what it is, what it means, and what we can do about it: for example you will find an analysis of the Copenhagen Accord and UK emissions targets, to see where we are headed; and a detailed look at what the consequences of this will be for Reading (my home town) compared to the rest of the world. My aim is to give you a complete summary of the issue, whilst presenting you with links to reliable sources of further information.

Last updated: 5 December 2010

About this website

There are thousands of sites out there with information about climate change. Lots are filled with information that is either too basic or too detailed and many of them are quite sensationalist. [i] Most sites also tend to be focused on a specific part of the subject for example: what it is or why it's bad or a dozen thing you can do to fix it. My site aims to be different to these - trying to give you good coverage of the whole subject.

Notice that throughout these pages, I have included links to all sources of data and information that I have used. Please be aware that things move very quickly in this subject. I'll do my best to keep things up-to-date: notice that you can see the Last updated date at the top of the page, which links to the update history, and the RSS feed (if you use news feeds).

Follow this link for information about how these web pages are structured. Notice that I have tried to design the site so that you can read through a summary of each topic, with the ability to delve into more detail about specific points of interest.

Contacting me

You can e-mail me at contact [@] chrisbeales.net:

Please let me know if there is anything that I haven't explained clearly to you - the point of this site is to try and help communicate climate change so it is important to me that these pages make sense.
Please let me know if I'm missing anything...or I've got something wrong...or if any of the links are broken.
And please do let me know if you find these pages useful. It is a lonely old job hacking away, trying to make sense of it all....

Closing remarks

Unfortunately, I have no moral high ground to stand on: I'm working on it but I know that my carbon footprint is too big! I do however, have a lot of knowledge and passion about this subject, which I can try and share with you...

I hope I have managed to do a good enough job of cut through the sensationalism and information overload, to give you something reliable and understandable. [i] I also hope that you get inspired and get fired-up about this. With a bit of passion we can push each other, and the governments that we elect, to sustainably change our lives, to reduce the impact of climate change. You know, it really is a beautiful world out there, and it is important that we try and keep it that way!

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Regards,

Chris Beales

For info: I trained as an environmental scientist, with particular interest in meteorology and modelling; and my day job is as a hydrologist working for the UK Environment Agency.