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World Energy Outlook 2019 Highlights Deep Disparities in the Global Energy System
Deep disparities define today’s energy world. The dissonance between well-supplied oil markets and growing geopolitical tensions and uncertainties. The gap between the ever-higher amounts of greenhouse gas emissions being produced and the...
Global Heating Brings Mediterranean Butterfly to the UK
A fast-flying migratory butterfly from the Mediterranean is appearing in large numbers across southern England this summer as a result of global heating, experts say.More than 50 long-tailed blues and hundreds of...
IEA: Global Carbon Emissions Hit Record High in 2018
Global energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions hit a new record last year, with an increase of 1.7% globally.That was a result of higher energy consumption, which grew by 2.3% – nearly twice...
Landmark UN Climate Report Urges ‘Rapid and Unprecedented’ Action to Limit Global Warming
It warns human activities have already caused around 1°C of warming above pre-industrial levels and is likely to reach 1.5°C by as early as 2030
Governments across the world must take “rapid, far-reaching...
New Study Reconciles a Dispute About How Fast Global Warming Will Happen
Unfortunately, mainstream climate scientists are still right, and we’re running out of time to avoid dangerous global warming.
We’re currently on pace to double the carbon dioxide-equivalent (including other greenhouse gases) in the...
Climate Change Driving Global Hunger Increase, Warns UN
Climate change and extreme weather conditions such as droughts and floods are among the key drivers behind the rise in global hunger.The warning from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) comes...
Extreme Global Weather Is ‘the Face of Climate Change’ Says Leading Scientist
Exclusive: Prof Michael Mann declares the impacts of global warming are now ‘playing out in real-time’
The extreme heatwaves and wildfires wreaking havoc around the globe are “the face of climate change,” one...
Migratory Barnacle Geese Threatened by Rapidly Rising Arctic Temperatures
Migrating barnacle geese that lay their eggs in the Arctic zones of northern Russia are becoming confounded by earlier springs in their traditional nesting grounds, according to a study published in Current...
Global Warming Will Depress Economic Growth in Trump Country
A working paper recently published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond concludes that global warming could significantly slow economic growth in the US.Specifically, rising summertime temperatures in the hottest states will...
Report Finds Global Climate Legislation Slowdown Since 2015 Paris Agreement
The place of global climate change legislation has "slowed significantly" since the Paris agreement was formulated in 2015, CBS reported Thursday.This slowdown follows decades of legislative growth, and raises potential concerns about...
Deforestation Has Driven Up Hottest Day Temperatures, Study Says
The average hottest day of the year in Europe, North America and Asia has been made significantly more intense as a result of deforestation since the start of the industrial revolution, a...
Scientists Suggest a Giant Sunshade in the Sky Could Solve Global Warming
It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: the creation, using balloons or jets, of a manmade atmospheric sunshade to shield the most vulnerable countries in the global south against the worst...
Half a Degree of Warming Makes a Big Difference to Global Food Security, Study Finds
A study published Monday indicates that it makes a big difference to global food security whether signatories to the Paris agreement are able to keep global temperature to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels,...
Temperature Rise over 2° Celsius (3.6° Fahrenheit) Possible in 13 Global Cities in 2020s, Study Finds
Over just the next decade or so, 13 large global cities are facing temperature rises that could exceed 2° degrees Celsius (3.6° Fahrenheit), according to a new report from the Urban Climate...
Keeping Global Temperature Increase Below 1.5 Degrees Celsius Unlikely, Says IPCC Draft Report
Every September, the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change releases a report on global warming, but that report doesn’t take shape overnight. It is the result of nearly a year’s worth of work...
Good News! Study Claims Global Warming Will Only Be Disastrous, Not Catastrophic
We all know the Earth is getting warmer. Everyone except Republicans knows the increase in temperature is related to carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels. Climate scientists don’t agree on how much...
