Guest post: How COP26 finally recognised the latest IPCC climate science
As climate scientists involved in the first part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) sixth assessment report (AR6), and with ... Read More
Guest post: How hourly rainfall extremes are changing in a warming climate
The floods across Europe, China and the US in recent months have again brought to the fore the ability of extreme rainfall to take lives, destroy hom... Read More
Guest post: How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2021
This year, the Greenland ice sheet has provided a feast for scientists. A cool and wet early summer with unusually large and late snowfall in June... Read More
Guest post: The Global Methane Pledge needs to go further to help limit warming to 1.5C
At the COP26 summit in Glasgow today, US president Joe Biden and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen officially launched the Global Me... Read More
Guest post: What 100,000 studies tell us about climate impacts around the world
The rapid growth of climate research provides an unprecedented evidence base for observing the impacts of climate change across the globe. However... Read More
Guest post: An Indigenous peoples’ approach to climate justice
Climate change has been identified as the “defining issue of our time” by many of the world’s leading experts and the diagnosis of planetary he... Read More
Guest post: The role ‘emulator’ models play in climate change projections
The most state-of-the-art tool available to climate scientists is, perhaps, the Earth System Model (ESM). These climate models simulate the flow of e... Read More
Guest post: How to assess regional climate information for adaptation planning
From heatwaves and wildfires, to floods and rainfall-induced landslides, the northern-hemisphere summer of 2021 has seen a brutal series of extreme w... Read More
Guest post: The climate-change gaps in the UK school curriculum
While the impacts of global warming are already being felt across the world, the decisions taken now on climate action will most affect today’s you... Read More
Guest post: How world’s coal-power pipeline has shrunk by three-quarters
There is now a broad consensus that unabated coal power generation must be rapidly phased out if the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement are to be met.... Read More
Guest post: Reviewing the summer of extreme weather in 2021
From heatwaves and hurricanes in the US to flooding in Europe and China, the weather over recent months has frequently hit the headlines. So, with... Read More
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