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Public money still flowing into industry despite agreement to phase out ‘inefficient’ subsidies, thinktank says
The amount of public money flowing into coal, oil and gas in 20 of the world’s biggest economies reached a record $1.4tn(£1.1tn) in 2022, according to the International Institute (...)
How many people are dying due to climate change? How does climate change cause death, and what are some of the omissions, deceptions, and confusions about fossil fuels, climate change, and mortality?
In the US, climate-related deaths are narrowly classified as heat-related, so simple google (...)
Expect more extremes and a range of ‘surprises’ to exacerbate the climate emergency.
Amid news of lethal heatwaves across the Northern Hemisphere comes the daunting prospect of a climate disaster on an altogether grander scale. New findings published in Nature Communications suggest the (...)
James Hansen, who testified to Congress on global heating in 1988, says world is approaching a ‘new climate frontier’
The world is shifting towards a superheated climate not seen in the past 1m years, prior to human existence, because “we are damned fools” for not acting upon warnings over (...)
In the past few weeks, climate records have shattered across the globe. July 4 was the hottest global average day on record, breaking the new record set the previous day. Average sea surface temperatures have been the highest ever recorded and Antarctic sea ice extent the lowest on record. (...)
The budget committee hearing looked into alleged misinformation from big oil that covered up ‘massive’ risks of the climate crisis
The Senate budget committee held a hearing on Wednesday morning to scrutinize the role of oil- and gas-linked “dark money” in delaying climate action – and (...)
Amazon rainforest and other ecosystems could collapse ‘very soon’, researchers warn
Ecological collapse is likely to start sooner than previously believed, according to a new study that models how tipping points can amplify and accelerate one another.
Based on these findings, the authors (...)
We ran computer programs that simulate ecosystems 70,000 times and the results are very worrying.
Across the world, rainforests are becoming savanna or farmland, savanna is drying out and turning into desert, and icy tundra is thawing. Indeed, scientific studies have now recorded “regime (...)
Current forecasts suggest a warm tropical Pacific will be interfering with what could otherwise be a ferocious Atlantic hurricane season.
The Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1, and forecasters are keeping a close eye on rising ocean temperatures, and not just in the Atlantic. (...)
Lakes and reservoirs have lost 22 gigatonnes a year since 1992, driven by factors including global heating and human consumption
More than half of the world’s large lakes and reservoirs have shrunk since the early 1990s – chiefly because of the climate crisis and human consumption – (...)
IPCC report says only swift and drastic action can avert irrevocable damage to world
Scientists have delivered a “final warning” on the climate crisis, as rising greenhouse gas emissions push the world to the brink of irrevocable damage that only swift and drastic action can avert.
The (...)
What does Karl Marx have to say about climate change? Quite a lot, according to a new book.
I’m often told that degrowth, the planned downscaling of production and consumption to reduce the pressure on Earth’s ecosystems, is a tough sell. But a 36-year-old associate professor at Tokyo (...)
The Pacific Ocean climate pattern is the opposite of El Niño.
It was anchovy fishermen in Peru who first noticed and named El Niño events in the tropical Pacific hundreds of years ago. Their catches would fluctuate and the largest declines were seen near Christmas when the ocean was at its (...)
Author of surprise hit Capital in the Anthropocene has developed his arguments in a new study of Karl Marx’s ecological thinking.
When academic Kohei Saito submitted his manuscript on Karl Marx, the ecological crisis and arguments for degrowth economics, he hoped it might introduce at least (...)
Alan Thornett offers his thoughts on a troubling end to COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh.
COP27, the 27th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, held last month in Sharm El-Sheikh to confront the planetary emergency caused by climate change, failed spectacularly (...)
Last week’s COP27 summit in Egypt ended with the world still on track for a disastrous rise in global temperatures. But a new climate policy from Brazil after Jair Bolsonaro’s defeat was one ray of hope for those on the front lines of the climate crisis.
s world leaders gathered for this (...)
Experts say biggest economies must pledge more cuts to carbon emissions but hail agreement to set up loss and damage fund
The world still stands “on the brink of climate catastrophe” after the deal reached at the Cop27 UN climate summit on Sunday, and the biggest economies must make fresh (...)
Rather than a bloated global talking shop, we need something smaller, leaner and fully focused on the crisis at hand
• Bill McGuire is Prof Emeritus of Geophysical & Climate Hazards at UCL
In the end, the recent shenanigans at the Cop27 meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh at least ended up (...)
Cop27 attendees who fought hard to be heard share their highs and lows from Egypt
With about 35,000 delegates from almost 200 countries attending Cop27, navigating the sprawling poorly signposted conference centre in Sharm el-Sheikh has been a huge challenge for grassroots activists, and so (...)
It is clear – half-way through the UN COP27 climate summit in Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt – that the whole UN COP process is facing its biggest crisis since it was launched at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.
In terms of climate change, floods in Pakistan recently submerged a third (...)
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