A recent study at Oregon State University indicates that some past approaches to calculating the impacts of forest fires have grossly overestimated the number of live trees that burn up and the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere a…
Carole Jahme, the Guardian’s evolutionary agony aunt who writes our weekly ‘Ask Carole column, joins us i…
Governments around the world reaffirm plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions, as required by last month’s climate accord.
UN climate chief Yvo de Boer says recent scandals over climate data are unfortunate but don’t discredit the view that the earth is warming and humans must act.
Copenhagen–Even under this city’s low, leaden skies, at least one thing remained clear as leaders from 193 countries gathered to negotiate climate agreements: one ton of carbon dioxide emitted in the U.S. has the same effect as one ton emitte…
• Too late to take action, says deputy commissioner• University of East Anglia ‘will act as appropriate’The University of East Anglia flouted Freedom of Information regulations in its handling of requests for data from climate sceptics, according to the government body that administers the act.In a statement, the deputy information commissioner Graham Smith said emails [...]
Is the goal of climate sceptics to lead us into greater scientific truth – or merely to sow doubt about the temperature record?When you peruse the many sceptic arguments against man-made global warming, you find a tendency to focus on a narrow piece of the puzzle while ignoring the broader picture. This narrow focus serves [...]
Latest figures show the world’s glaciers are continuing to melt so fast that many will disappear by the middle of this centuryGlaciers across the globe are continuing to melt so fast that many will disappear by the middle of this century, the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) said today.The announcement of the latest annual results [...]
Inaccurate claims predicting Himalayan meltdown have handed gainsayers a big victory. But nothing material has changedIt was a strange moment that linked the fates of some of the world’s poorest farmers to the interests of an increasingly powerful set of western lobby groups. Last week, UN climate researchers admitted they had grossly overestimated the chances [...]
The head of a panel of United Nations climate scientists said Saturday he would not resign despite a recent admission that a panel report warning Himalayan glaciers could be gone by 2035 was hundreds of years off.