Climate change potentially represents the most significant threat to all life on our planet. There is now a wide scientific consensus that carbon dioxide emissions are causing climate change and the harmful effects are widely recognised.

The RSPB views climate change as the most serious long-term threat to wildlife in the UK and globally. In their words:

“Recent scientific research indicates that, as early as the middle of this century, climate change could commit one third or more of land based plants or animals to extinction including some species of British birds.”

The catastrophic potential of climate change is recognised by the UK Government, Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly Government, World Governments, RSPB, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, World Wide Fund for Nature as well as the majority of world scientific community. They all believe we must act now to save our planet for future generations.

There is no one single answer. We all need to minimize our energy consumption and together this could have a huge impact. We need to encourage more renewable energy sources and today the most developed and most effective renewable technology is wind power.