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“Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5” (RCP 8.5) is a global warming trajectory trotted out by the Trudeau government…
“Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5” (RCP 8.5) is a global warming trajectory trotted out by the Trudeau government…
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Days when large damaging wildfires are possible could nearly double in Southern California by the end of the century if climate…
Abstract Changes in the Arctic climate-ocean system can rapidly impact carbon cycling and cryosphere.
ここ数年、気候科学者、経済学者、エネルギーシステムモデル研究者による国際チームは、次の100年ほどの間に世界の社会、人口動態、経済がどのように変化するかを検討するために、さまざまな新しい「経路(pathway)」を構築してきました。これらは総称して「共通社会…
Climate crisis“Worst case” CO2 Emissions Scenario Best Match for Assessing Climate Risk: Report Four scenarios known as…
Climate change has hastened glacial melting across the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, home to some of the world’s tallest peaks…
Egy friss tanulmány szerzői az egyik legrosszabb forgatókönyvvel számoltak a globális felmelegedés kapcsán.
Scientists making climate-change projections have to deal with a number of uncertainties.
Het klimaat warmt op, veel te hard, maar betekent dat ook het einde van de tonijn, de pinguïn en de landbouw in Zuid-Europa?
Nation/World FILE - In this Nov. 28, 2019 file photo, smoke and steam rise from a coal processing plant that produces carbon…
The year is 2100, and the world’s 12 billion people are still burning fossil fuels with abandon.
Climate Change "Stop using the worst-case scenario for climate warming as the most likely outcome" | 1.29.2020 2:30 PM (Dvmsimage…
In "Ignore the Fake Climate Debate," an essay in yesterday's Wall Street Journal, the Breakthrough Institute's Ted Nordhaus…
by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via )NurPhoto via In recent years the issue of climate change has taken a decidedly apocalyptic turn.
Climate models are one of the primary means for scientists to understand how the climate has changed in the past and may change…
This article expands on claims about global temperature trends made in Ronald Bailey's article in the January 2020 issue of…
Long-term planning and decision-making for fundamental societal infrastructure must take a changing climate into account.
The Democrats running for their party’s presidential nomination are focusing more on climate change.
A sizable portion of recent studies on future climate impacts have focused on a future warming scenario called “RCP8.5”.
This morning in Geneva, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its special report on climate change and…
Warming conditions mean more evaporation, which leads to more water vapor in the air.
More than half of the world could see new temperature records set in every single year by the end of the century if global…
More than half of the world could see new temperature records set in every single year by the end of the century if global…
More than half of the world could see new temperature records set in every single year by the end of the century if global…
According to a new study, Colombia could lose 60% of land suitable for rice production by the 2050s as a result of climate…
New model simulations of future Atlantic hurricane seasons suggest that higher greenhouse gas emissions will reduce vertical…
By studying tree-ring records from across the world, researchers have, for the first time, traced the “fingerprint” of climate…
The influence of human-caused climate change on global drought risk could extend back for more than a century, a study finds.
Nearly one billion people could face “their first exposure” to a host of mosquito-borne diseases by 2080 under extreme global…
Nearly one billion people could face “their first exposure” to a host of mosquito-borne diseases by 2080 under extreme global…
A misleading graph purporting to show that past changes in Greenland’s temperatures dwarf modern climate change has been…
If atmospheric CO2 levels exceed 1,200 parts per million (ppm), it could push the Earth’s climate over a “tipping point”, finds…
A widely reported study in 2016 that suggested Antarctica could add more than a metre to sea levels by 2100 was likely an “overes…
The impact of climate change on soil moisture could push the land past a “tipping point” – turning it from a net carbon “sink…
Since the National Climate Assessment dropped on Black Friday, members of the Trump administration have inaccurately attacked…
Since the National Climate Assessment dropped on Black Friday, members of the Trump administration have inaccurately attacked…
Cold meltwater running off Antarctica’s ice sheets and into the ocean could dampen the pace of global temperature rise, a new…
Rising levels of CO2 in the ocean could spark blooms of toxic algae capable of causing harm to marine life and human health, a…
ビール愛飲家には悪い知らせだ。10月15日に発表された 研究 によると、地球温暖化による干ばつや熱波で大麦の生産高が減少し、今後数十年でビール価格が倍増する可能性があるのだ。 今世紀末までに、大麦に被害をもたらす熱波と干ばつが3年に1度ほどの頻度で起き、ビー…
Spraying aerosols high in the stratosphere could dampen global warming over land, but may not prevent the oceans from heating up…
As little as 14,000 years ago, lions roamed across most of Earth’s continents, including Europe, Asia and the Americas.
On the eastern coast of Gibraltar, steep cliffs conceal a network of caves containing artwork and engravings that were created…
In the fourth article in a series on how key emitters are responding to climate change, Carbon Brief looks at South Africa’s…
Climate science tells us that in the future, combinations of heat and humidity could be so extreme that the evaporation of…
Dr Phillip Williamson is an honorary reader at the University of East Anglia and science coordinator of the UK Greenhouse Gas…
Last year’s record hurricane season – which saw Hurricane Harvey, Irma and Maria cause devastation across North and Central…
Last year’s record hurricane season – which saw Hurricane Harvey, Irma and Maria cause devastation across North and Central…
INFOGRAPHICS | September 26. 2018. 15:10 Mapped: How every part of the world has warmed – and could continue to warm Climate…
The economic damage from coastal flooding in Europe could reach almost €1 trillion per year by 2100 without new investment in…
An additional 290 million people could face malnutrition by 2050 if little is done to stop the rise of greenhouse gas emissions…
Such a surge in heatwaves could push marine organisms and ecosystems to the limits of the resilience and even beyond, which…
Marine heatwaves could become 41 times more likely across the globe by 2100 than in pre-industrial times if little is done to…
The economic damage from coastal flooding in Europe could reach almost €1 trillion per year by 2100 without new investment in…
Climate change could play a smaller role in determining future giant panda populations than previously thought, a new study…
Scientists studying the troposphere – the lowest level of the atmosphere – have found “powerful evidence” that climate change…
As part of the Paris Agreement on climate change, the international community committed in 2015 to limit rising global…
As part of the Paris Agreement on climate change, the international community committed in 2015 to limit rising global…
The combined effects of global warming and land-use change could cause the world’s ecosystems to lose more than a third of…
Limiting global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels rather than 2C could halve the number of vertebrate and plant…
Dr Benjamin Cook is a climate scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
Scientists agree that cutting global greenhouse emissions as soon as possible will be key to tackling global warming.
Low-lying coral islands across the tropical oceans could become “uninhabitable” in the coming decades because of the combined…
Over the past few years, an international team of climate scientists, economists and energy systems modellers have built a…
Meeting the Paris Agreement’s aspirational target of limiting global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels could “substanti…
That is the stark conclusion of a new study, which analyses the lag between global temperature rise and the retreat of glaciers.
While such “internal” climate migration is often overlooked compared to international migration, it could lead to new and…
As many as 143 million people in three of the world’s most vulnerable regions could be forced by 2050 to migrate within their…
The warming the world has already experienced could be enough to melt more than a third of the world’s glaciers outside…
The number of clashes between people and African lions could increase as temperatures rise, a new study suggests.
The arduous journey that king penguins must make in order to hunt fish to bring back to their young could become even longer as…
Alluvioni, siccità e ondate di calore. L'impatto del cambiamento climatico sull'Europa potrebbe essere molto peggiore del…
Thinking of fleeing to Europe to escape the record-breaking severe weather in the U.S.? You're not likely to find a reprieve…
A new analysis of climate change across Europe found that under several probable future climate scenarios, European cities will…
More than 500 European cities could face sharp increases in droughts, floods and heatwaves if climate change continues to rise…
Failure to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement within the next few decades could have long-lasting impacts on global sea…
The Cuvette Centrale peatlands stretch across an area of central Africa that is larger than the size of England and stores as…
Just over a year ago, scientists announced the discovery of the world’s largest intact tropical peatland in a remote part of…
In the first article of a week-long series focused on climate modelling, Carbon Brief explains in detail how scientists use…
Peaks of the Tien Shan, one of many regions in Asia’s high mountains with predictions of massive glacier loss by the end of the…
Climate change could reduce the amount of wind available for power production in both the UK and the US, new research suggests.
The global energy system is in a state of flux. Renewables are experiencing rapid deployment and steep pricefalls.
The UK could face harsher and more frequent winter storms if global greenhouse gas emissions aren’t curbed, a new study says.
Some of the world’s most diverse coral reefs are found in cooler parts of the tropics.
Bringing “extreme” poverty to an end will not jeopardise the chances of limiting global warming to 2C above pre-industrial…
New York City could be struck by severe flooding up to every five years by 2030-45 if no efforts are made to curb human-driven…
From habitat loss to extreme weather events, the world’s wildlife faces a list of challenges as a result of climate change.
Dr Richard Millar is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Oxford Martin Net Zero Carbon Investment Initiative at the…
These glaciers provide water to at least 800 million people living in Asia. However, it could be too late to save all of Asia’s…
Keeping global temperature rise to no more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels could ensure that two-thirds of the ice stored…
For java junkies, trouble is brewing. Trouble could be brewing for the Latin American coffee industry, new research warns, as…
Trouble could be brewing for the Latin American coffee industry, new research warns, as it faces losses in suitable farmland…
As many as one in three parasites could become extinct as a result of climate change by 2070, new research suggests.
The number of droughts in Jordan could double by 2100 as a result of climate change, new research suggests.
Climate change could push peak electricity demand from winter to summer in most European countries, a new study says.
Originally published August 7, 2017 at 8:53 am Updated August 7, 2017 at 10:20 am Some parts of Washington state, like Walla…
As an apocalyptic haze blanketed Seattle last week, temperatures soared into the 90s and left Seattleites ruing their lack of…
Climate change is set to increase the amount of ground-level ozone and fine particle pollution we breathe, which in turn leads…
By the end of the century, if no action is taken on climate change, some parts of Texas could experience 95-degree temperatures…
Climate change is set to increase the amount of ground-level ozone and fine particle pollution we breathe, which leads to lung…