climate change

Review: “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power”, Al Gore, 2017

9 October 2017

My wife and I watched Al Gore’s 2017 sequel to An Inconvenient Truth, which was originally issued in 2006, last night; we were the only people in the cinema, which is a sad comment on the lack of interest in what is the most important threat to human civilisation. This is a curate’s egg [read more]

Taking the Long View: The ‘Forever Legacy’ of Climate Change

26 September 2017

This article originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is republished with their kind permission http://e360.yale.edu/features/taking-the-long-view-the-forever-legacy-of-climate-change Climate change projections often focus on 2100. But the geological record shows that unless we rapidly [read more]

Limiting global warming to 1.5C could save two-thirds of Asia’s glacier ice

17 September 2017

DAISY DUNNE Keeping global temperature rise to no more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels could ensure that two-thirds of the ice stored in Asia’s high-mountain glaciers is still around at the end of the century, a new study says. These glaciers provide water to at least 800 million people [read more]

Climate change jeopardises survival of snow leopards

13 September 2017

Receding snowline in Asia’s high mountains, due to global warming and infrastructure developments, poses a major threat to snow leopard as humans encroach on their habitat by Juhi Chaudhary “I love the snow leopard,” says bright-eyed Ganaium, who lives in Tamchy village close to Issyk-kul [read more]

Climate change ‘could double’ the number of droughts in Jordan by 2100

6 September 2017

by Daisy Dunne The number of droughts in Jordan could double by 2100 as a result of climate change, new research suggests. However, conflict in Syria, a close neighbour of Jordan, could also play a role in future drought risk in the region, the lead author tells Carbon Brief. An end to the Syrian [read more]

Navigating toward a ‘Paris Agreement for the oceans’?

13 June 2017

James Fahn: Global cooperation on the protection of our seas has been one of the weak points of the environmental movement. New York – The first ever UN Ocean Conference came to a close on Friday 9 June with a Call For Action, over 1,300 voluntary commitments made to support ocean health, and [read more]

Throttling climate science, Trump style

29 March 2017

Joydeep Gupta The US President’s executive order to roll back the Clean Power Plan will not impact the policies of other countries, but moving money away from climate research will. US President Donald Trump’s executive order repealing previous president Barack Obama’s Clean Power [read more]

Vulnerable communities will suffer if China does not step up adaptation efforts

26 January 2017

Rebecca Nadin With typhoons, rainfall and drought all expected to increase, provinces must do more to adapt. Editor’s note: This article is an introduction to a series of on-the-ground reports examining adaptation efforts in mainland China and Hong Kong. It has been produced by Chinese [read more]

U.S. Deep Freeze, December 2016

14 December 2016

There had been speculation that record low temperatures would be coming to the United States in early December, and this had been framed as either evidence against global warming in general or that cold air outbreaks are increasing due to climate change. World Weather Attribution (WWA) presents a [read more]

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