The new report from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) urges world leaders to adopt a “crisis footing” to solve land degradation. | Continue reading
The latest IPCC report outlines how to tackle climate change, including reductions in fossil fuel use, energy efficiency, electrification, the rapid uptake of low-emission energy sources and the use of alternative energy carriers. | Continue reading
A scientific briefing that UK prime minister Boris Johnson says changed his mind about global warming has been made public for the first time. | Continue reading
Nations pledged to limit global warming to “well below” 2C above pre-industrial levels and also to “pursue” efforts to cap warming at 1.5C under the Paris Agreement. | Continue reading
Scientists have been making projections of future global warming using climate models of increasing complexity for the past four decades. | Continue reading
As the northern hemisphere summer comes to an end, it seems a fitting time to reflect on how the news media has reported on this year’s summer heat and heatwaves. This has been an exceptionally hot summer: across Europe, there have been two distinct periods of very hot weather. T … | Continue reading
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has raised its forecast for the global growth of wind... | Continue reading
You have probably already heard a discourse of climate delay. Perhaps it came from a friend, a colleague, someone famous or someone powerful. | Continue reading
The affordable clean energy rule was meant to prop up the coal sector, by requiring coal-fired power plants to become more efficient and potentially making them run longer, the newspaper explains. | Continue reading
While this year will be memorable for many reasons, it is now more likely than not that 2020 will also be the warmest year for the Earth’s surface since reliable records began in the mid-1800s. | Continue reading
The world’s best solar power schemes now offer the “cheapest…electricity in history” with the technology cheaper than coal and gas in most major countries. | Continue reading
The world’s best solar power schemes now offer the “cheapest…electricity in history” with the technology cheaper than coal and gas in most major countries. | Continue reading
While previous estimates put the ocean carbon sink at around 2bn tonnes of CO2 per year, we find that it could be 0.8-09bn tonnes larger. Over the whole 27-year study period of 1992-2018, this means the global oceans have taken up 67bn tonnes of CO2 rather than 43bn. | Continue reading
The most striking result of the new 2020 report is that BEIS has once again slashed its estimates for the levelised cost of wind and solar power. This is illustrated in the chart, below. | Continue reading
The chances of anywhere in the UK hitting 40C – a temperature not yet recorded in the country – are likely to increase rapidly in the coming decades, a new study finds.At present, the UK is only expected to see 40C heat once in every 100 to 300 years. | Continue reading
The rapid rise of social media over the past two decades has brought with it a surge in misinformation. Online debates on topics such as vaccinations, presidential elections (pdf) and the coronavirus pandemic are often as vociferous as they are laced with misleading information. | Continue reading
Tropical cyclones across the world have become more intense over the past four decades, a new study concludes.Major tropical cyclones with winds of 115 miles per hour or more became 15% more likely at a global level from 1979-2017, according to the analysis. | Continue reading
In the aftermath of the global coronavirus pandemic, governments are likely to mobilise significant spending to reinvigorate their economies. | Continue reading
The global coronavirus pandemic continues to unfold at a staggering pace, decimating lives, livelihoods and... | Continue reading
Methane emissions from coal mines could be more than double previous estimates, according to a new study. | Continue reading
As China battles one of the most serious virus epidemics of the century, the impacts... | Continue reading
Any climate law or policy that is not based on the current best available science and does not include the global aspect of equity or climate justice – principles at the very heart of the Paris Agreement – will do more harm than good. | Continue reading
The persistent march of a warming climate is seen across a multitude of continuous, incremental... | Continue reading
Climate models are one of the primary means for scientists to understand how the climate has changed in the past and may change in the future. These models simulate the physics, chemistry and biology of the atmosphere, land and oceans in great detail, and require some of the larg … | Continue reading
Global electricity production from coal is on track to fall by around 3% in 2019, the largest drop on record. | Continue reading
CO2 utilisation is an industrial process that makes an economically valuable product using CO2 at concentrations above atmospheric levels. CO2 is either transformed using chemical reactions into materials, chemicals and fuels, or it is used directly in processes such as enhanced … | Continue reading
If the cement industry were a country, it would be the third largest emitter in... | Continue reading
In the third quarter of 2019, the UK’s windfarms, solar panels, biomass and hydro plants generated more electricity than coal, oil and gas put together. | Continue reading
Germany generated significantly less electricity from coal-fired power stations in the first half of 2019, with output down by more than a fifth compared to a year earlier. | Continue reading
Since 2000, the world has doubled its coal-fired power capacity to around 2,000 gigawatts (GW) after explosive growth in China and India. A further 236GW is being built and 336GW is planned. | Continue reading
Solar power has become cheaper than grid electricity across China, a development that could boost the prospects of industrial and commercial solar, according to a new study. | Continue reading
This morning in Geneva, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its special report on climate change and land. | Continue reading
CO2 emissions in China may peak up to a decade earlier than the nation has pledged under the Paris Agreement, according to a new study. With its enormous population and heavy reliance on coal, China is by far the world’s biggest polluter, responsible for more emissions than the U … | Continue reading
The UK’s Met Office recently released “HadSST4”, the largest update since 2011 to its widely used sea surface temperature (SST) record. The new version provides more accurate estimates of SSTs in the period during and after the second world war, as well as over the past decade. I … | Continue reading
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Global surface temperatures in 2019 are on track to be either the second or third warmest since records began in the mid-1800s, behind only 2016 and possibly 2017. On top of the long-term warming trend, temperatures in 2019 have been buoyed by a moderate El Niño event that is lik … | Continue reading
The role of variability due to natural ocean cycles in global warming is a long-standing debate in climate science. The scientific community overwhelmingly agrees that human activities are responsible for the observed increase in temperatures for the last half-century. However, t … | Continue reading
Close to half of the UK’s electricity will come from renewable sources by 2025, according to Carbon Brief analysis of new government projections. | Continue reading
Climate change is a top tier political issue in Australia. Debates over climate and energy policy have triggered several of the numerous changes of prime minister in recent years. | Continue reading
The first results from a new generation of global climate models, which are valuable tools for understanding climate change, are now becoming available from climate research centres around the world. | Continue reading
The UK’s CO2 emissions peaked in the year 1973 and have declined by around 38% since 1990, faster than any other major developed country. | Continue reading
As little as 14,000 years ago, lions roamed across most of Earth’s continents, including Europe, Asia and the Americas. Though it is not possible to tell what caused the lions to go extinct, evidence taken from fossils and ancient cave paintings suggests that human hunting could … | Continue reading
Climate change is often communicated by looking at the global average temperature. But a global average might not mean much to the average person. How the climate is likely to change specifically where people live is, in most cases, a much more important consideration. | Continue reading
Temperatures on the Earth’s surface in the first half of 2018 were lower than over the same period for the three previous years. This was due, in part, to a moderate La Niña event during late 2017 and the first half of 2018. | Continue reading