Analysis: Just four years left of the 1.5C carbon budget
Four years of current emissions would be enough to blow what’s left of the carbon budget for a good chance of keeping global temperature rise to... Read More
Phasing out cookstoves a 'win-win' for climate and health, study shows
Replacing traditional wood and coal-burning cookstoves with cleaner technology could trim nearly a tenth of a degree from global temperature and save... Read More
Guest post: How scientists predicted CO2 would breach 400ppm in 2016
Prof Richard Betts is head of climate impacts research at the Met Office Hadley Centre and chair in climate impacts at the University of Exeter. ... Read More
Surge in plant growth explains slower CO2 rise over past decade
It's unequivocal that human activity is raising CO2 levels in the atmosphere. But since the start of the century, the level has stopped accelerating... Read More
Explainer: Why a UN climate deal on HFCs matters
Update 15/10/16 — A deal was agreed by almost 200 countries on 15 October 2016. The agreement means that developed countries will start to... Read More
Highlights: Day two at the 1.5C conference on climate change in Oxford
Today saw the second and final full day of the conference “1.5 degrees: Meeting the challenges of the Paris Agreement”, organised by the... Read More
Highlights: Day one at the 1.5C conference on climate change in Oxford
More than 200 climate science and policy researchers, economists and social scientists have descended this week on Keble College in Oxford for a... Read More
Scientists confirm multiple climate records broken in 2015
Last year saw records in the Earth’s climate system continue to tumble, says the latest State of the Climate report from the US National Oceanic and... Read More
Shifting global cloud patterns could amplify warming, study says
A new study sheds light on one of the biggest uncertainties in predicting future changes to Earth's climate: clouds. Clouds both warm the planet by... Read More
Aerosol emissions key to the surface warming ‘slowdown’, study says
In the early 2000s, the rate of warming at the Earth’s surface was slower than scientists expected, despite the continued accumulation of CO2 in the... Read More
Guest post: How to improve clarity in greenhouse gas emissions targets
Prof Myles Allen is professor of geosystem science at Oxford University. Prof Piers Forster is professor of physical climate change at the University... Read More
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