A Future of Retreating Glaciers in the Himalayas
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Climate change has hastened glacial melting across the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, home to some of the world’s tallest peaks…
Climate change has hastened glacial melting across the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, home to some of the world’s tallest peaks…
Ведущие климатологи мира сошлись на том, что уровень моря повысится на 0,63-1,32 метра к 2100 году и на 1,67–5,61 метра к 2300 го…
SourceIn Part One I created a simple model to illustrate how easily the world could reach or exceed the emissions projected by…
In an epic climbdown, following a long campaign by sceptics to point out the routine misuse of the RCP8.5 IPCC…
Reposted with permission from Forbes Roger Pielke Energy In recent years the issue of climate change has taken a decidedly…
Long-term planning and decision-making for fundamental societal infrastructure must take a changing climate into account. This…
According to research, new heat records could be set in two-thirds of the world’s least developed countries each year by 2100.
The influence of human-caused climate change on global drought risk could extend back for more than a century, a study finds.
Extreme global warming means one billion people could be exposed to mosquito-borne diseases for the first time by 2080…
Read time: 10 minsBy Zeke Hausfather, Carbon Brief. Originally posted on Carbon Brief. A misleading graph purporting to show…
Rising levels of CO2 in the ocean could spark blooms of toxic algae capable of causing harm to marine life and human health, a…
A new study shows that high sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the Atlantic played a larger role in a record hurricane season…
The economic damage from coastal flooding in Europe could reach almost €1 trillion per year by 2100 without new investment in…
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Daisy…
Despite the name, global warming is a local issue as much as a worldwide one.
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Daisy…
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Benjamin…
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Robert…
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Daisy…
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Daisy…
By Guang Zeng, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research and Jason West, University of North Carolina – Chapel…
by Larry Kummer, originally posted at the Fabius Maximus website. Another peer-reviewed paper predicting disaster from…
Billions of people across the world could see climates they’ve never experienced before by the middle of the century, a new…
Global average temperatures could pass 1.5C above pre-industrial levels within the next decade, new projections suggest. The…
The cost of allowing global temperature to rise to 2C, rather than capping warming at 1.5C, is an area of permafrost the size…
Four years of current emissions would be enough to blow what’s left of the carbon budget for a good chance of keeping global…
This is a guest article by Dr Wenju Cai, from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia…
The likelihood of extreme wildfires – or “megafires” – across the world is expected to increase as global temperatures rise, a…
Staple crops grown in the US could see their yields drop substantially by the end of the century as daily temperatures…
Scientists highlight a worrying—and not well understood—spike in atmospheric methane.Continue reading on Pacific Standard »
The Paris Agreement, slated to come into force on the 4 November, contains a two-pronged, long-term goal for limiting global…
A rigorous study just published in the prestigious journal Science argues that soil alone cannot be can be counted on to save…
A guest article by Dr Nathanael Melia, a post-doctoral research assistant in the Department of Meteorology at the University of…
29 July 2016 (LSE) – Increasingly hot summers can have devastating effects on worker productivity. As temperatures increase…
Below are listed all the papers in journal Climatic Change between years 1977 and 2012. Climate and energy: A scenario to a…
At least four heat-related fatalities have been reported in separate incidents in Arizona. The post Record-Breaking Southwest…
For some time now I have been wanting to write a piece on something called RCP8.5, which is a scenario about what might happen…
Two weeks ago, I wrote a blog post for Science Borealis with my co-editor in the Earth
Infectious diseases, such as dengue and the Zika virus, could spread to new parts of the world as...
Infectious diseases, such as dengue and the Zika virus, could spread to new parts of the world as mosquitoes expand their…
Many small island nations will increasingly lose access to fresh water over the course of the century — but their size means…
Environment Photo credit: Glaciers have been a major contributor to sea-level rise. Knut Christianson A…
John Church, CSIRO and Peter Clark, Oregon State…
Without emissions cuts, much of sub-Saharan Africa will become unsuitable for growing key crops during this century, a new…
This is a re-post from Robert McSweeney at Carbon…
Reducing emissions in the energy and transport sectors could prevent almost 300,000 early deaths caused by air pollution in the…
The celebrated seafood of the northeast US, such Maine lobster and New England clams, is under threat from warming temperatures…
Using global average temperatures to convey the impacts of climate change may not be getting across the urgency of reducing CO2…
Research out this week maps where power plants around the world are most at risk from higher water temperatures and decreased…
Research out today maps where power plants around the world are most at risk from higher water temperatures and decreased water…
The marshy, tundra landscape surrounding Newtok is seen from a plane on July 6, 2015 outside Newtok, Alaska. Like on Alaska’s…
by Larry…
How a warming ocean affects marine animals is about more than how high temperatures get. It also matters whether or not fish…
Conditions in the Middle East could become so hot and humid by the end of the century that being outside for more than six…
I finished preparing my presentation for Thursday in Brisbane. The topic of my talk is "Drivers of Industrial and Non-Industrial…
The tropics could see a huge drop in biodiversity as marine life heads for cooler waters, a new study suggests. Rising sea…
Plants and…
This is a re-post from Robert McSweeney at Carbon…
Frequent droughts and habitat loss could push drought-sensitive butterflies in the UK to local extinction by the middle of…
Attempts to limit climate change by removing carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere would not prevent the irreversible…
Using biofuels as a way to cut greenhouse gas emissions could put US water resources under increasing pressure, a new study…
The worst-case emissions pathway, RCP8.5, is a scenario that burns a huge amount of fossil fuels, especially coal. The model…
Over the past few decades, our Sun has been relatively active, giving off high levels of the solar radiation that warms the…
The number of days each year when conditions are suitable for plants to grow could fall as the climate warms, according to…
A guest post by Dr Grégory Beaugrand, researcher at the University of Lille Laboratory of Oceanography and Geoscience, and Dr…
A region of the Himalayan mountain range, home to the iconic peak of Mount Everest, could be almost completely free of…
With spring in full swing, there's much to enjoy about sunny days and warmer temperatures. But this time of year also brings…
Every year, trees and plants across the world absorb a vast amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But a new study…
Scientists have noticed a curious thing happening as rising temperatures melt the Greenland ice sheet. The ice that's left is…
A guest post from Dr Christina Schädel, a research associate at the Ecosystem Dynamics Research Lab at Northern Arizona…
Understanding how the climate reacts to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide, known as 'climate sensitivity', is crucial to…
One of the biggest question marks surrounding the fate of the planet’s coastlines is dangling from its underbelly. The…
2014 study in Environmental Health Perspectives on the effect of global warming on future heat waves and their subsequent…
Humans' greenhouse gas emissions are changing the oceans' chemical makeup - posing risks to wildlife and coastal communities.
IPCC reports have extensive reference lists but unfortunately they don’t include direct links to papers. Below are the…
IPCC reports have extensive reference lists but unfortunately they don’t include direct links to papers. Below are the…