2 October 2018, Climate Home News, Leaked US critique of climate report sets stage for political showdown in Korea. Confidential US comments on a landmark global warming report raise doubts about the science behind it, warn that it risks crimping economic development … Continue reading →
Category Archives: The Science
27 September 2018, NOAA, 2018 Arctic sea ice minimum continues longer trend. Arctic sea ice has probably reached its annual minimum for 2018, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). Sea ice extent dipped to 1.77 million square miles (4.59 million … Continue reading →
Climate News Network, 7 August 2018, Hothouse Earth could soon be unavoidable. Human actions threaten to push the planet into a new state, called Hothouse Earth. In such a world global average temperatures could stabilise at 4°C or even 5°C higher than they … Continue reading →
30 July 2018, The Conversation, The ozone hole is both an environmental success story and an enduring global threat. The headlines in recent months read like an international eco-thriller. At Mauna Loa Observatory, perched high on a Hawaiian volcano, researchers measure unusual levels of CFC-11 in … Continue reading →