Global warming is the term used to describe the gradual increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere and oceans.

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uk culture: Climate change. It is impossible to avoid the issue of climate change, because of the huge impact it has on us and we have on it. The UK has set ambitious targets for how it is going to deal with it and in this issue we look at climate change from the UK perspective. See this issue

magazine article: Aeroplanes and Global Warming. "Have you ever looked out of the window of a passenger plane from 30,000 feet at the vast expanses of empty ocean and uninhabited land, and wondered how people can have any major effect on the earth?" Read article

word game: Global warming. Reorder sentences describing the stages of the process of global warming. Play game

poem: Heat. This poem by Archibald Lampman conjures up vivid images of a sweltering summer’s day. Phew! Read poem

cartoon: "What's the matter with the ozone layer, anyway?" "Its hole." "It's ..." See cartoon

trivia: Wordplay. Global Warming is an anagram of Ball going warm. See more global warming trivia

links: Wikipedia: global warming See more links

Bern Manifesto: Fifty young scientists and young leaders from Bangladesh, Switzerland, the UK and the United States met in Switzerland to discuss the impact of climate change on the cities we live in and what we can do about it. Download their manifesto (PDF file 3.57 MB)

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