"Stop leaving me on standby!"

It's very easy to ignore all climate change warnings - from TV ads to leaflets given out on the high street - and to maintain the attitude that "it doesn't affect me." The fact is, it does affect you and is affecting you. This advert is all about acting on CO2 and demonstrates that by leaving your TV on standby or the lights on, you're creating more CO2 emissions as well as making your bills more expensive:

Basically, all you need to do is make a few small changes to your daily life to avoid the rise in CO2 emissions.
You can:

• save your carrier bags and re-use them when you next go shopping
• boil the kettle with the right amount of water in it
• set the heating in your house to appropriate times
• buy energy efficient light bulbs
• recycle your rubbish - separate paper from tins etc

Rising CO2 emissions is also affecting you in terms of climate change. Fair enough, the British summer is renown to have a spot of rain but the past couple of summers have shown that climate is changing. Last summer showed no sign of summer at all, merely floods. Mike Hulme makes a good point about climate change in this article. I mean, sun and blue skys in October?! Weather and climates are no longer predictable.

Obviously only small changes can happen if everyone takes part in trying to save energy but it will still help to push the long term consequences of climate changer further away.

Let's face it, who wants a world like this:



or even this:



Okay, so the latter is a very extreme image of long term climate change but it's your wake-up call. Make the changes and stop climate change.