The Heat - What is it?

We've all noticed the uprising of the gorgeous weather on Monday 27th June 2011 - but is this the start of something great for the UK? Or the beginning of the end?


In a recent survey done in London Center, surveyors asked shoppers if "they'd like the weather to stay this way, even if it meant harm to the world in 50 years time?" - an overwhelming 65% of shoppers said they wouldn't mind if the weather stayed at a great temperature all year round.
This brought me to think, do these 65% even know what Global Warming, or Climate Change is? And if so, do they know the effects it may have on not just the world, but them?

Obviously, I couldn't let this go, so to anyone unsure what Climate Change is, here's it in brief:

100 years ago, the Industrial Revolution happened. This created more pollutant gases, which polluted the cities and atmosphere. Due to more and more people buying cars; flying to foreign countries; using tons of aerosols without checking for pollutant gases and other environmentally crippling cases, we've now got more pollution then ever before. This creates the 'Advanced Greenhouse Effect' - which captures more heat, thus making it hotter and the weather more unstable. This is Climate Change in short.

This is just the beginning though, researchers say in 100 years time - all of Australia will be baron and unlivable; Nigeria will have a "gulf" due to intense tsunamis and floods; the Amazon rain-forest will be flat due to mass-deforestation and forest-fires; most of the UK will be underwater; Japan will be completely gone off the map; one of the only livable places will be Greenland; 4/5 of all ice from the North-Pole will be gone.

All of that, in just 100 years. Scary, right?
Well then stop driving so much!