2005 'hottest and stormiest year'

2005 will be the hottest, driest and stormiest year on record, and it's most likely due to climate change, according to an international environment group.

The WWF say there has been more extreme weather like hurricanes and droughts this year than any other.

They also say that the amount of ice at the poles has shrunk more than before.

Amother scientist, Dr James Hansen, has warned that the planet will be very badly damaged within 10 years if global warming isn't slowed down.

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At a conference in San Francisco, he said just one more degree of warming would send the Earth into weather patterns it hasn't experienced for more than half a million years.

World-Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) spokesperson Lara Hansen said the violent weather that has hit many places in 2005 is too strong to just be explained by natural cycles.

One of the UK's top scientists, Sir David King told the BBC that one way of fighting climate change is to capture carbon dioxide emissions and bury them deep under ground.