LONDON, 28 July, 2020 − In the northern hemisphere it’s now high summer, with high temperatures to match, traditionally time for those with enough leisure and money to take wing and head abroad − when they could happily just spend their holidays at home enjoying a staycation. 2020 is not proving a very good year for […]
Alex Kirby, Climate News Network
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Scientists’ climate gap is narrowing
LONDON, Nov. 19, 2019 – There’s evidence that a scientists’ climate gap − a hesitation to reflect their findings in their personal lives − is diminishing, with significant changes under way in individuals’ behaviour. The world’s climate scientists spend their working lives establishing what is happening as the world heats up. They tell the rest […]
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Scientists back global climate strike
LONDON, September 20, 2019 − Leading scientists have declared their support for the global climate strike which starts today. In a statement published by the Earth League, headed Humanity is Tipping the Scales of the World, 20 respected scientists throw their weight into the argument. Among a stellar company, they number Lord Nicholas Stern, Johan […]
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Global warming hot spots pass safe limit
LONDON, September 15, 2019 − By land and sea, some of the planet’s hot spots are already above the temperature agreed by scientists and politicians as the maximum allowable to prevent a disastrous climate crisis. The limit was accepted by 195 governments in the Paris Agreement, reached in 2015: it committed them to preventing the […]
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Clean energy spurt vital for 2°C warming limit
LONDON, 19 April, 2018 – Staying within the agreed limit for global temperature rise will be simple, though not easy: it just needs a clean energy spurt providing a switch to clean energy six times faster than it’s happening today, analysts say. In 2015, most of the world’s governments signed the Paris Agreement, undertaking to […]
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WMO: 2017 among the three warmest years recorded
LONDON, Nov. 6, 2017 – For all of us, as 2017 proves one of the three warmest years on record, climate change presents a greater risk of sickness or death than it did four decades ago, the United Nations says. And for some of the world’s poorest people, the consequences of unpredictable weather caused by […]
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US military stresses climate security risks
LONDON, Sept. 23, 2016 – A group of senior defence experts in the US has warned that climate change is a threat to the country’s security, with the stark message that “the impacts of climate change present significant and direct risks to US military readiness, operations and strategy”. They are members of the Climate Security […]