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How can we help and what actions can we take?

We can all do something and anything you do will be a positive contribution. For me one of the most impactful things is, I’m just starting my career in renewable energy and I think that if energy or renewable energy is one of your passions then it could be having a career in that sector

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What is the biggest contributor to climate change?

My understanding, is that if we look at the mixture of factors that are affecting climate change, the biggest contributor will be a gas called carbon dioxide and that is a by-product or its emitted or its released when you burn fossil fuels like oil and coal and gas as the by-product. Greenhouse gases are

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How long do we have to stop climate change?

The Paris climate agreement is an agreement where most nations around the world decided or pledged that they would try and limit global warming to 1.5 degrees or at the very least below 2.0 degrees. That is generally viewed by scientists as a realistic target if we want to avoid the very worst consequences of

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Why did we even let climate change come so far and let it destroy so much?

I think when we have new technologies it is always important to think about the impact on the society and the communities that those technologies are going out to. I think lots of people have different opinions on wind turbines about whether their visual or noise pollution. I personally think they’re very attractive in our landscape but that’s just my opinion. I think one thing that we are doing to address this is wind turbines are now being installed many kilometres offshore and so that removes that visual and noise pollution for those of us onshore.

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Will climate change affect the world equally?

I think when we have new technologies it is always important to think about the impact on the society and the communities that those technologies are going out to. I think lots of people have different opinions on wind turbines about whether their visual or noise pollution. I personally think they’re very attractive in our landscape but that’s just my opinion. I think one thing that we are doing to address this is wind turbines are now being installed many kilometres offshore and so that removes that visual and noise pollution for those of us onshore.

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Do you think wind turbines cause visual and noise pollution?

I think when we have new technologies it is always important to think about the impact on the society and the communities that those technologies are going out to. I think lots of people have different opinions on wind turbines about whether their visual or noise pollution. I personally think they’re very attractive in our landscape but that’s just my opinion. I think one thing that we are doing to address this is wind turbines are now being installed many kilometres offshore and so that removes that visual and noise pollution for those of us onshore.

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What would happen if Antarctica melted?

Antarctica holds most of the world’s ice so if Antarctica melted it would raise global sea levels by 58 metres. So 58 metres would dramatically change the coastlines around the world. The good news is that we don’t think that is going to happen imminently.

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