EV’s: Crucial to Reducing CO2 Emissions

In June 1988 a leading climate scientist, Dr James Hansen, presented the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources with data showing that...

Past four years hottest on record, NASA records show

February 6th, 2019 New findings that the past four years were the warmest on record shows that there is no longer any doubt that global...

Russia reviews ratification of Paris Agreement

The preparation of a report on formally joining the climate deal has been ordered complete by the end of the month, while a key...

Studies shed new light on Antarctica’s future contribution to sea level rise

A widely reported study in 2016 that suggested Antarctica could add more than a metre to sea levels by 2100 was likely an “overestimate”,...

2018 fourth warmest year in continued warming trend, according to NASA, NOAA

Earth's global surface temperatures in 2018 were the fourth warmest since 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...

Met Office: World has 10% chance of ‘overshooting’ 1.5C within five years

There is a one-in-10 chance that global average temperatures could “temporarily exceed” 1.5C above pre-industrial levels in at least one year over the next...

Conservation policy to protect peatlands a ‘colossal failure’

February 6th, 2019 Conservation measures to protect Ireland’s unique peatlands over the past three decades have been a “colossal failure”, an Oireachtas committee heard today. The...

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