With Extreme Weather, Will Insurers Come to the Rescue?
Following a damaging episode of extreme weather, communities turn to insurance companies to help them rebuild, but with costly extreme weather and climate events on the rise as the climate continues to warm, insurers may stop coming to the rescue, a new report warns. The report from Ceres, a nonprofit group that advocates for sustainable busines… Read More
Global Carbon Trading System Has ‘Essentially Collapsed’
The world's only global system of carbon trading, designed to give poor countries access to new green technologies, has "essentially collapsed", jeopardising future flows of finance to the developing world. Billions of dollars have been raised in the past seven years through theUnited Nations' system to set up greenhouse gas-cutting projects, such… Read More
Coral Reefs of the Caribbean Facing Collapse
Caribbean coral reefs — which make up one of the world's most colorful, vivid and productive ecosystems — are on the verge of collapse, with less than 10% of the reef area showing live coral cover. With so little growth left, the reefs are in danger of utter devastation unless urgent action is taken, conservationists warned. They said the drastic … Read More
2012 Record Temperatures: Which States Led the Nation
The summer of 2012 has been one for the record books in the lower 48 states. On the heels of the country’s warmest-ever spring, several record-breaking June and July heat waves kept the Southwest, Midwest and Atlantic Coast sweltering. July went on to become the all-time warmest month on record for the country. [add statistic from August once we’ve… Read More
Geoengineering Faces Dilemma: Experiment or Not?
In May, a team of British scientists abruptly canceled an experiment they had been planning for nearly two years. The Stratospheric Particle Experiment for Climate Engineering, or SPICE, was intended to test ways of injecting tiny particles of sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere, with the eventual goal of filtering out sunlight to cool the… Read More
Patagonian Glaciers Are Rapidly Melting, Report Finds
Ice fields in southern South America are rapidly losing volume and in most cases thinning at even the highest elevations, contributing to sea-level rise at "substantially higher" rates than observed from the 1970s through the 1990s, according to a study published Wednesday. The rapid melting, based on satellite observations, suggests the ice field… Read More
Heidi Cullen Joins Lateline to Discuss Record Sea Ice Melt
Climate Central's Heidi Cullen appeared on Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Lateline with host Tony Jones to discuss climate change and the recent news of the record low Arctic sea ice. Click here to watch the broadcast or read the full transcript. … Read More
Gulf Coast States Brace for Arrival of Tropical Storm Isaac
Millions of residents in four vulnerable Gulf Coast states were bracing for the arrival of Isaac, a powerful tropical storm that has already claimed several lives on its path through the Caribbean.… Read More
