4 June 2018, SMH, Limiting global warming to 2 degrees now ‘aspirational’: scientists. The chance of limiting human-induced global warming to less than 2 degrees is rapidly disappearing as carbon emissions again ramp up in China while reductions in the US and … Continue reading →
Category Archives: The Science
16 May 2018, COSMOS, If it’s not one thing, it’s another: the challenge of compound weather events. The deadly Russian wildfires of 2010, the Brisbane floods of 2011 and the inundation of New York by Hurricane Sandy in 2012 were all … Continue reading →
10 May 2018, Yale climate connections, Cracking a climate conundrum. CO2 emissions leveled off between 2014 and 2016. But annual growth of CO2 in the atmosphere rose to more than 50 percent above that of past decades. What explains the contradiction? In … Continue reading →
10 May 2018, BBC, Trump White House axes NASA research into greenhouse gas cuts. President Donald Trump’s administration has ended US space agency Nasa’s monitoring system into greenhouse gases, a US journal has revealed. The Carbon Monitoring System (CMS), a $10m (£7m)-a-year project … Continue reading →