If the weather’s temperamental behaviour has been getting you thinking, then perhaps it’s time you made a stand and stepped out for the Campaign Against Climate Change http://www.campaigncc.org march this December. On Saturday 8 December, coinciding with the United Nation’s Climate talks in Bali, Indonesia, synchronised marches will be taking place in countries all over the world, calling on world leaders to take urgent action on climate change.

According to the Campaign Against Climate Change website:
“Global average surface temperature has risen by about 0.6 degrees C in the last hundred years. This might not sound much but already the global ‘physical’ impacts have been considerable, including a 10% reduction in snow cover and a 40% decrease in the thickness of Arctic sea ice (at its seasonal thinnest). The 1990s were the warmest decade on record.”

With the US responsible for about one quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, with only about 4% of world population, it’s imperative that the US finally gets on board with cutting greenhouse gas emissions after dropping out of the Kyoto Treaty in 1997 (when industrialised nations agreed to cut their emissions by 5%). Since 1990 emissions in the US have increased by 20% while experts have warned that industrialized nations must reduce their CO2 emissions by 60% by the middle of this century. Furthermore, while other countries are working to reduce their emissions, Bush’s current energy plan ensures that US emissions will continue to rise

The London march is on Saturday December 8, meeting at midday in Millbank and gathering in Grosvenor Square at 2.30pm for speeches. The Glasgow march, on the same day, starts at the Ski jump ramps at 12.30pm and there will be another meeting point in George Square at 2pm. For more information or to get involved visit www.campaigncc.org