IEA: World Can’t Afford to Wait for a New Climate Treaty
The world cannot afford to wait for a new global climate change agreement to come into force in 2020, because doing so will mean an end to hopes of limiting global warming to moderate levels, one of the world's foremost authorities on energy has warned. Carbon dioxide emissions from energy rose by 1.4 percent in 2012 to a record high of more than … Read More
Wicked Week of Tornadoes, Hurricanes and Flooding
It is extreme weather to the max in this week's slideshow of top climate news. … Read More
Heidi Cullen Looks at Climate, Extremes on Face the Nation
Climate Central Chief Climatologist Dr. Heidi Cullen appeared on CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday, May 26, to discuss the scientific evidence linking some recent extreme weather events to manmade global warming. She was part of a panel that also featured Marshall Shepherd, president of the American Meteorological Society; Jeffrey Kluger, science … Read More
Tornadoes, Heat-Related Deaths, and Hurricanes
An extreme weather-packed slideshow of the week's top climate news.… Read More
Oklahoma Tornado Shows Progress in Weather Warnings
Despite the utter devastation left in the wake of the massive tornado that tore through Moore, Okla., the deadly storm, in many ways, helped showcase how far scientists have come in providing communities early tornado warning signs. In an era of budget cuts that threaten things such as new weather satellites and improved hurricane prediction, … Read More
Study: 97 percent Agreement on Manmade Global Warming
The research, which is the most comprehensive analysis of climate research to date, finds that 97.1 percent of the studies published between 1991 to 2011 that expressed a position on manmade climate change agreed that it was happening, and that it was due to human activity. The study looked at peer reviewed research that mentioned climate change … Read More
Warming Could Slash Species’ Habitat Ranges in Half
Vast numbers of plant and animal species could see their ranges slashed in half later this century as a result of climate change, according to a study in Nature Climate Change. The result, say the authors, could be serious ecosystem disruptions along with the loss of so-called “ecosystem services,” such as the purification of air and water; erosion… Read More
Amazon May Lose 65 Percent of Land Biomass by 2060
There will be no winners if agriculture made possible by widespread felling in the Amazon continues to expand, say researchers from Brazil and the U.S. They calculate that the large-scale expansion of agriculture at the expense of the forest could entail the loss of almost two-thirds of the Amazon’s terrestrial biomass by later this century … Read More
