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Kevin Anderson: Delivering on 2 Degrees
Kevin Anderson says we lost the chance to stay below 1.5 degrees and for a 33% chance of staying below 2 degrees, industrialised nations such as the UK, need to fully decarbonise by 2035. As part of the ‘Delivering on 2 degrees’ talks and debate evening organised by the Carbon Neutral University Network, Kevin talks about the Paris Agreement within the background of Climate Science and what is needed to stop global warming at 2C or even 1.5C. […]
Regenerating soil holds the key to tackling climate change
As climate change makes farming more difficult, this may be our best bet for food security.
San Andreas 2: Will Dwayne The Rock Johnson discover climate earthquakes?
There are many reasons to base the story this time on scientific findings, on climate change and tectonic activity.
Louisiana’s 2016 billion-dollar flood disaster
The flood has been called the worst US natural disaster since Hurricane Sandy in 2012, and the "no-name storm" dumped three times as much rain on Louisiana as Hurricane Katrina.
The Top 10 Devastating Effects of Climate Change
10 Extreme weather Record heat, record drought, record floods, and stormy weather will become more common. The results are broad, affecting food production, the heart of our society, literally all ecosystems, and work or living conditions. 9 Wildfire Are fires affected by climate change? The answer is simple, yes. Of course. A warming climate affects fire. Warming temperatures dry out land, making it all more flammable. The number of large forest fires in the western United States has increased over [...]
Ocean Warming Is ‘Greatest Hidden Challenge of Our Generation’
A new International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) report, Explaining ocean warming: causes, scale, effects and consequences, sets out the most recent and comprehensive review to date on this topic and shows a complex story of change in the ocean. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDxSgItCUGk At the World Conservation Congress in September 2016, Marine Vice-Chair of the IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas Prof. Dan Laffoley speaks of the recent Ocean Warming report being published on the importance and urgency of tackling climate [...]
Nigel Roulet: Greenhouse gases and Carbon sinks explained
We have the knowledge and hopefully the awareness to develop innovative strategies and safeguards to sustain land carbon storage. […]
Climate Change, Arctic Security and Methane Risks
Over the past year, the climate risks of methane (CH4) released from natural sources have attracted increasing media attention in scientific and media forums as “the Arctic climate threat that nobody’s even talking about yet.”