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📚 Reference
Every source cited across this resource, in one list.
🔬 The basic science
- Met Office, "What is the Gulf Stream?"
- Met Office, "What affects global climate?"
- Met Office, "Greenhouse gases"
- Met Office, "Water cycle"
- Met Office, "Carbon cycle" (Climate Explained)
📊 Measured evidence
- NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory and Mauna Loa Observatory, atmospheric CO₂ data
- Global Carbon Budget 2025
- Met Office, State of the UK Climate, 2025 edition, published 15 July 2026 (doi.org/10.1002/joc.70470); 2024 edition for the UK sea level figure
- Met Office Climate Dashboard, ocean heat content (climate.metoffice.cloud)
- GlaMBIE Team, "Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023," Nature 639, 382–388 (2025)
- National Snow and Ice Data Center, Sea Ice Today (nsidc.org)
🔮 Projections
- IPCC AR6 Working Group I, Summary for Policymakers (ipcc.ch)
- Met Office UK Climate Projections (UKCP) overview, including UKCP18 precipitation and sea level projections
- What will climate change look like near me?, BBC / Met Office postcode tool
🏴 Scotland and Findochty
- SEPA flood maps, Scotland's environment agency
- Scottish Water
- Scottish Fire and Rescue Service
- Met Office wildfire and drought risk data
- Garry, F., Bernie, D., Davie, J., Pope, E. (2021), "Future climate risks to UK agriculture from compound events," Climate Risk Management 32, 100282
- Scottish Government statutory net zero target (Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act)
- News reporting on the 2026 Cairngorms wildfire (Press & Journal, BBC, SnowBrains), current as of 31 July 2026; check for updates
- Met Office Local Authority Climate Explorer, which generates Moray-specific figures where this resource has none
- FCC's own Severe Weather page, with practical guidance for Sterlochy Pier and elsewhere
🌱 Taking action
- DESNZ, "2025 UK greenhouse gas emissions, provisional figures," published 2 April 2026 (gov.uk)
- Lower Otter Restoration Project (Environment Agency, gov.uk). The project's original .co.uk domain has lapsed and now redirects to an unrelated commercial site; this links to the Environment Agency's own coverage instead
- Solar power generation data via Ember Global Electricity Review 2026 and the Energy Institute's Statistical Review of World Energy 2026
- IEA, Electricity 2026 and Renewables 2024, for the forecast that solar overtakes hydropower as the largest renewable electricity source by 2029
- Environment Agency water availability projections (2020)
📌 A note on sourcing: the overall structure and framing of this resource comes from the Met Office's "Climate Change & Community" training session delivered to Findochty Community Council in 2026. On the What We Can Do page, the SuDS pond photo is credited to Richard Sutcliffe (CC BY-SA 2.0, Geograph); the community tree-planting photo is via Vecteezy, used under a Pro licence that doesn't require attribution.
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