Webinar: Is climate change making wildfires worse?
Carbon Brief hosted its second webinar on Wednesday and a video (above) of the recording is now available to watch on YouTube.
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Guest post: Why low-end ‘climate sensitivity’ can now be ruled out
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Siberia’s 2020 heatwave made ‘600 times more likely’ by climate change
Siberia’s prolonged heat from January to June this year – which broke temperature records and drove polluting megafires – would have been “almost impossible” without human-caused...
Scientists concerned by ‘record high’ global methane emissions
Worldwide emissions of methane have hit the “highest levels on record”, according to an international team of scientists.
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Explainer: How climate change is affecting wildfires around the world
This year has seen unprecedented wildfires cause havoc across the world. Australia recently battled its largest bushfire on record, while parts of the Arctic,...
Guest post: Why Africa’s heatwaves are a forgotten impact of climate change
Recent summers have demonstrated dramatically that heatwaves are not only deadly, but they are already being influenced by human-induced climate change.
Research into heatwaves across...
Guest post: Global warming edges closer to Paris Agreement 1.5C limit
The latest forecast (pdf) from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) suggests that over the next five years there is a 24% chance of the...
Guest post: Where in the UK might be suitable for BECCS?
As global temperature rise pushes past 1C above pre-industrial levels, the time remaining to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement becomes increasingly tight.
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Guest post: How public attitudes towards ‘CO2 removal’ differ in the UK and US
With global greenhouse gas emissions still increasing – and Covid-19 lockdown restrictions merely causing a short-term dip – the challenge of holding global temperature...
Scientists discover new ‘human fingerprint’ on global drought patterns
Human-caused climate change has “intensified” patterns of extreme rainfall and drought across the globe, a new study finds.
There is a detectable “human fingerprint” on...
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