Local Climate Change Research
Climate change, while global in nature, will have significant implications at the local level. Researchers are helping us to understand the possible effects of climate change on Lake Huron's coastal communities. Studies done recently at Goderich, Ontario and Oliphant, Ontario are summarized here.

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Lake Huron and Climate Change - What Are The Possibilties?
A changing climate has always been a part of life on our planet.  Human-induced climate change has emerged as one of the most important global environmental issues.  Due to human activity, carbon dioxide (CO²) and other greenhouse gas levels have increased in our atmosphere. This has been from burning of fossil fuels and to smaller extent land use clearing.

Global Warming. Global Action. Global Future.
350 is the red line for human beings, the most important number on the planet. The most recent science tells us that unless we can reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million, we will cause huge and irreversible damage to the earth.

Video: Al Gore's new thinking on the climate crisis
Nobel laureate Al Gore presents a talk (filmed February 2008) presenting evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists recently predicted. He challenges us to act.