Nov 8, 2011 Project CLAMER finds 'disturbing' evidence of
changes to Europe's seas Project CLAMER, an 18-month initiative
involving 17 European marine institutes, has amassed some
'convincing' and 'disturbing' evidence of changes in the
European marine environment, according to its organisers. The
project, which has now come to an end, synthesized an extensive
collection of academic papers published since 1998 on climate
change and Europe's marine environments and combined this with a
groundbreaking opinion poll. The online survey of 10,000
residents in 10 European countries reveals widespread concern
about climate change, led by worries about sea-level rise and
coastal erosion. The poll also found that those worried by
climate change largely blame the phenomenon on other groups of
people or nations, and assign governments and industry
responsibility for mitigating the problem (though they perceive
government and industry as ineffective on the issue). Some 86%
of respondents said climate change is caused enti