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Climate change
NERC spends about £40m each year on climate change research. Our scientists are world-leading authorities on this issue, and advise the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, recognised worldwide as the definitive source for climate change information.
Scientific certainties and uncertainties
- Is the planet warming?
- Can we distinguish man-made from natural effects?
- The world's average surface temperature has increased by 0·7°C. Does it matter?
- Predicting climate change with state-of-the-art models.
- Climate can change rapidly, over decades rather than centuries.
- What are carbon sinks and carbon sources?
- What is 'global dimming'?
- Are the oceans becoming more acidic and does it matter?
- El Niño and climate change
- Is the ozone hole related to the greenhouse effect?
- Rising sea levels
- Is the world's ice melting?
- What will climate change mean for our world?
- What will climate change mean for the UK?
- Can climate change be stopped?
- Will climate change accelerate?
- What is the Kyoto Protocol?
- How can we reduce emissions?
- Reducing uncertainties
We invited climate change sceptics to ask questions or tell us why they don't believe the science. Read the climate change debate to see their views and how NERC responded.
