ABSTRACT
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN-organised body that reviews scientific research on climate change, concluded in its most recent assessment that ‘Warming of the climate system is unequivocal’ (IPCC 2008: 72). The NASA website states ‘The evidence for climate change is compelling’ (NASA 2012). The UK’s Met Office (2009) recently stated, ‘It is now clear that man-made greenhouse gases are causing climate change. The rate of change began as significant, has become alarming and is simply unsustainable in the long term’ (p. 2).
