The UK Climate Impact Programme’s anticipated study of the threat climate change has to the UK will be released on Thursday 18th June 2009. The study will show how the UK’s weather will effect the country over the next hundred years, has been devised using the recent advances in climate science to better understand some of the uncertainties associated with climate change estimates.

Head of Climate Change at WWF charity, Keith Allott, said –

It’s great that the Government has decided to put together such a scientifically robust analysis of the potential impacts of climate change in the UK, but the picture it paints is an alarming one. This research confirms that not only is climate change already having a serious impact in Britain, but that we are also locked into further impacts, and that these impacts will get much worse unless we act now to tackle the problem.

What’s really worrying, is the fact that if these are the kind of impacts we can expect to see in the  UK, then the world’s most vulnerable countries are facing an even bleaker future. It is vital that the developed world breaks out of the collective denial seen at the recent UN climate talks in Bonn, and starts to face up to their obligation to take action on climate change now.