COMMUNITY CLIMATE ACTION AN AUSTRALIAN GUIDE

The earth’s atmosphere is made up of a delicately balanced layer of ‘greenhouse gases’. This layer acts like a blanket, trapping enough heat to sustain life. Humans are burning huge amounts of fossil fuels – adding more and more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere and making this blanket thicker. This traps more and more heat, warming the globe and throwing our climate into chaos. Climate change is already underway. The most recent (2007) report of the world’s most authoritative body of climate scientists, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)1, confi rmed that:2...