SEAD (Scottish Education and Action for Development)

While the overall warming is measured across global averages, local patterns will vary dramatically – we’re talking about increasingly extreme weather events (which may include extreme cold), interspersed with periods of more normal weather. And scientists now believe that unbalancing the delicate climate system is 50% likely (over the next 100 years) to result in the shut-down of the Gulf Stream. This could leave us with a climate similar to that of Labrador, Canada.

Read more about this at the BBC Weather Centre.