# Climate Change: The Science, The Impact, And What You Can Do > This experience covers the basic science, what's actually happening to weather, ecosystems, and people right now, and the part most climate content skips - genuinely practical, sourced things individuals and communities can actually do about it. - **Canonical URL:** https://skemr.com/experience/climate-change - **Category:** Education & Learning - **Curated by:** SKEMR AI - **Contents:** 4 journeys, 11 chapters, 24 sources - **Last updated:** 2026-08-25 ## What this is A curated transmedia experience: existing web sources selected and ordered by an editor. SKEMR does not host the underlying content — each item links to its original publisher. Journeys are alternative routes through the same material. ## Journeys ### The Science, In Brief The greenhouse effect, the evidence, and the global scientific consensus that follows from it with a light touch on impact, policy, and action. - Steps: 14 - Machine-readable: https://skemr.com/api/ai-context/climate-change/journeys/j-science - Briefing for a chat: https://skemr.com/api/ai-context/climate-change/journeys/j-science/briefing.md ### Real-World Impact What's actually happening right now to weather, ecosystems, and people drawn from national met agencies, NOAA, and the IPCC's own impacts assessment. - Steps: 17 - Machine-readable: https://skemr.com/api/ai-context/climate-change/journeys/j-impact - Briefing for a chat: https://skemr.com/api/ai-context/climate-change/journeys/j-impact/briefing.md ### What You Can Actually Do The practical path ranked global solutions, then real, sourced actions for your home, your everyday choices, and your community, with just enough science and impact context to know why it matters. - Steps: 15 - Machine-readable: https://skemr.com/api/ai-context/climate-change/journeys/j-action - Briefing for a chat: https://skemr.com/api/ai-context/climate-change/journeys/j-action/briefing.md ### The Full Picture All 24 instances the science, the impact, the policy, and the action, start to finish. - Steps: 24 - Machine-readable: https://skemr.com/api/ai-context/climate-change/journeys/j-full - Briefing for a chat: https://skemr.com/api/ai-context/climate-change/journeys/j-full/briefing.md ## Chapters - **The Greenhouse Effect** — How CO and other gases trap heat the basic physics, understood since the 1850s and quantified by Svante Arrhenius in 1896. - **The Evidence** — The Keeling Curve's continuous CO record since 1958, NASA's live vital signs, and the World Meteorological Organization's own annual state-of-the-climate assessment. - **Real-World Impact: Extreme Weather** — The UK's own Met Office on record-breaking heat and rainfall becoming the norm, and the World Meteorological Organization on the global pattern of spiralling weather impacts. - **Real-World Impact: Ecosystems & Wildlife** — NOAA's confirmation of the largest global coral bleaching event on record, and how species from monarch butterflies to moose are struggling to keep pace with how fast their habitats are changing. - **Real-World Impact: People & Communities** — The IPCC's own dedicated assessment of impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability what happens to food, water, health, and livelihoods as the climate changes. - **The Global Response: IPCC & Paris Agreement** — How 195 governments agreed, in 2015, to limit warming to 'well below 2C' and the UN body whose job is synthesising the science that agreement is built on. - **What Works: Ranked Global Solutions** — Project Drawdown's own database of over 70 science-based climate solutions, ranked and explained the closest thing that exists to a global to-do list. - **Individual Action: Home & Energy** — The US EPA's own guidance on cutting emissions through home energy choices, and the UN's global campaign for individual climate action. - **Individual Action: Travel, Diet & Everyday Choices** — WWF's own practical guidance on the everyday choices diet, transport, and beyond that add up. - **Community Action: Local & Collective** — The EPA's own guidance on community-scale action, and a real UK organisation that helps ordinary community groups actually build local energy projects. - **Track Progress & Get Involved** — An independent tracker holding every country's climate pledges up against what the Paris Agreement actually requires. ## Sources - [Greenhouse effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect): The reference explanation of the physics outgoing infrared radiation, absorbing gases, re-emission. - [Paris Agreement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Agreement): The reference page for the 2015 treaty 195 parties, the 1.5C and 2C targets, and how national pledges work. - [Effects of climate change on human health](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_climate_change_on_human_health): A supplementary reference page on the specific human-health pathways heat, disease range shifts, food and water security. - [Causes of Climate Change](https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/causes/): NASA's own primer on the greenhouse effect, including the Earth energy-budget infographic. - [Vital Signs of the Planet](https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/): NASA's own live dashboard CO, global temperature, Arctic ice, and sea level, updating as you read. - [Why Does Climate Change Matter? We Asked a NASA Scientist](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfWCUYX2_U0): Official NASA video, a working climate scientist explaining why the greenhouse effect matters in practice. - [Mauna Loa CO Trends (the Keeling Curve)](https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/): The world's longest continuous CO measurement, updated regularly the single most cited graph in climate science. - [NOAA confirms 4th global coral bleaching event](https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaa-confirms-4th-global-coral-bleaching-event): NOAA's own announcement of the largest coral bleaching event on record roughly 84% of the world's reef area affected between 2023 and 2025. - [How does climate change affect coral reefs?](https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/coralreef-climate.html): NOAA's own explainer, a shorter companion to the bleaching-event announcement, covering warming, ocean acidification, and storm intensity together. - [State of the Global Climate 2025](https://wmo.int/publication-series/state-of-global-climate/state-of-global-climate-2025): The WMO's own annual assessment 20152025 confirmed as the hottest 11-year stretch on record. - [WMO report documents spiralling weather and climate impacts](https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/wmo-report-documents-spiralling-weather-and-climate-impacts): A shorter WMO press report on the same global data, focused specifically on the disruption to food, water, and infrastructure systems worldwide. - [Climate change in the UK](https://weather.metoffice.gov.uk/climate-change/climate-change-in-the-uk): The UK's own national weather and climate service on how the country's climate has already changed, and what its own projections (UKCP18) show for the decades ahead. - [Nature can keep up with climate change but not at this speed](https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/08/nature-can-keep-up-with-climate-change-but-not-at-this-speed/): Yale's own climate journalism on how monarch butterflies, sea turtles, salmon, and moose are all struggling as their environments change faster than they can adapt. - [AR6: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (Working Group II)](https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-working-group-ii/): The IPCC's own dedicated assessment of what a changing climate does to ecosystems, people, and societies and the limits of adapting to it. - [AR6 Synthesis Report](https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/): The IPCC's own 36-page summary of its entire Sixth Assessment cycle the single most authoritative overview of the state of the science. - [Drawdown Explorer](https://drawdown.org/explorer): Project Drawdown's own interactive database of over 70 highly-recommended, science-based climate solutions, built with more than 200 researchers. - [A Primer on Science-Based Climate Solutions](https://drawdown.org/explorer/primer): Project Drawdown's own methodology guide, explaining how the Explorer's rankings actually work meaningless without the tool it's written to introduce. - [What You Can Do About Climate Change Energy](https://www.epa.gov/climate-change/what-you-can-do-about-climate-change-energy): The US EPA's own guidance on the specific, practical energy choices that make the biggest difference at home. - [What You Can Do About Climate Change Community-Scale Action](https://www.epa.gov/climate-change/what-you-can-do-about-climate-change-community-scale-action): The EPA's own guidance on tree planting, community gardens, green roofs, and getting involved in local government climate decisions. - [Act Now](https://www.un.org/en/actnow): The UN's own global campaign for individual climate action practical daily actions, tracked and recommended. - [5 ways to take action for climate](https://www.wwf.org.uk/act/ways-to-take-action-for-climate): WWF's own practical, quick-reference list from voting to sustainable diets to getting involved locally. - [How we can fight climate change](https://www.wwf.org.uk/learn/climate-change/solutions): WWF's own fuller explainer behind the quick list the reasoning and evidence for each recommended change. - [My Community](https://www.cse.org.uk/my-community/): A real UK charity's own hub for community groups free expert advice and hands-on support for local, low-carbon energy projects. - [Climate Action Tracker](https://climateactiontracker.org/): Independent, scientific tracking of every country's climate pledges and policies against what the Paris Agreement actually requires. ## Attribution Curated by SKEMR. 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