Educate yourself!  The science and impacts of climate change

Met Office guide to climate change, including

• "Climate change — your essential guide"   ← RECOMMENDED
  
• Impacts of 4 degC increase in temperatures
  
• Impacts of 2 degC increase in temperatures
  
• Guide to climate science
  

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Fourth Assessment Report
Summaries for policy makers:

• "The Physical Science Basis" (pdf, 3,766k)
  
• "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability" (pdf, 924k)
  
• "Mitigation of Climate Change" (pdf, 632k)
  

Arm yourself against climate sceptics' arguments and myths with responses from Skeptical Science

Educate yourself!  Climate justice

Global Humanitarian Forum, Human Impacts Report   ← RECOMMENDED
See the material on climate justice on the separate pages.

Educate yourself!  Government climate policy

Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)
Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) - Responding to climate change
Department for International Development - Fighting impacts of Fighting poverty > climate and environment
HM Treasury - Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change 2006

Committee on Climate Change
Office of Climate Change
Sustainable Development Commission

Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act 2006

Educate others!  Give a talk

Emulate the Archbishop of Canterbury, whose belief in the need for each of us to be better stewards of God's creation is reflected in his many public statements about the environment.

We would like to put together some standard slides for short talks, but have too much else on at the moment.  If anyone would like to create some talks from the above material, please do get in touch.

Some material to get people's attention!

• Breathing Earth
• Happy Planet Index
• Know the Number - greenhouse gases in our atmosphere
• One Hundred Months
• Rise Up: Penguins' call to action
• Banksy on climate change
• The Big Ask: Climate change, "ACT NOW!"
  

Or you could show a film at your church, such as

• An Inconvenient Truth
  
• Home (free on YouTube)
  
• The Age of Stupid
• A Farm for the Future (on Youtube, first shown on BBC2)
  
  

Take action!  Do-it-yourself

For churches

• Use this website!!
  
• Eco-congregation
  
• Shrinking the Footprint
  

For individuals - measure your footprint and commit to reducing it

• DirectGov - Act on CO2
  
• Google - Carbon Footprint Project
  
• TearFund - My Global Impact
  


• Sign up to the 10:10 pledge
  
• Guardian - How to achieve 10% cuts
• Tips from the Diocese on carbon reduction at home and in church
  
  

Take action!  Campaigning

Get involved with the campaigns run by charities

• Operation Noah - Resources
  
• Christian Aid - Policy and Campaigns
  
• TearFund - Campaign
  
• Oxfam - Policy and Campaigns

Run or participate in election hustings

• Information from Churches Together in Britain and Ireland - access resources on how to run hustings; find out what hustings are already planned for the General Election 2010; document on faith in politics, covering a range of the most important policy issues

Write to your local councillor, MP, MEP, etc etc

• You can find out who your councillors, MP and MEP are at Write to Them, and then write to them!  Easy!  The site also provides advice on who to contact for which issue, and on writing to members of the House of Lords.
  
• They Work for You provides information on your MP's interests, speeches and voting records.
  
• For official guidance on contacting MPs, Lords and Government, see the Parliament website.
• There are plenty of useful tips on how to write out there, and these are worth following.
• And don't forget that Bishop Michael sits in the House of Lords!
  

If you're feeling ambitious, you could respond to government consultations

• DECC consultations
• Defra consultations
  
  

Pray!

See the prayer and worship resources, and example services, on the separate pages.
We're always looking for more material, so please contact us if you have some to share.