10 Aug 2021
The strength of the IPCC’s Code Red for Humanity report is sobering; its dire warning could not be clearer. Yet at the same time, it confirmed that the Paris agreement’s 1.5C warming limit is not lost, and with strong global action, we can still achieve it. Interviews with five people involved in the debate on […]
10 Aug 2021
Global surface temperature was 1.09° C higher in the decade between 2011-2020 than between 1850-1900. The past five years have been the hottest on record since 1850 The recent rate of sea level rise has nearly tripled compared with 1901-1971 Human influence is “very likely” (90%) the main driver of the global retreat of glaciers […]
10 Aug 2021
Climate scientists have detected warning signs of the collapse of the Gulf Stream, one of the planet’s main potential tipping points although estimates of the critical transition point remain uncertain. The research from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany found “an almost complete loss of stability over the last century” of the […]
10 Aug 2021
At the end of June, the Climate Change Committee submitted its report to Parliament on progress in reducing emissions and in adapting to climate change. They note that “Government has made historic climate promises in the past year, for which it deserves credit. However, it has been too slow to follow these with delivery. This […]
10 Aug 2021
The latest annual report from the Met Office provides a summary of the UK weather and climate through the calendar year 2020, alongside the historical context for a number of essential climate variables. This is the seventh in a series of annual ‘State of the UK climate’ publications providing an accessible, authoritative, and up-to-date assessment […]
10 Aug 2021
Promoting Adaptation to Changing Coasts project is a largely Interreg funded project with two arms – one in Devon (the Lower Otter Restoration Project) and the other in Normandy (the Saane Valley project). The two schemes are working to restore river estuaries that have, over time, been changed in order to reclaim land. The land […]
03 Aug 2021
The UK’s goal of tackling the climate crisis by reducing carbon emissions to net zero by 2050 is “too far away”, the prime minister’s climate change spokesperson has said. Allegra Stratton, Boris Johnson’s former press secretary, said the “science is clear” that the UK must change its carbon emission output “right now”. Click here Speaking […]
03 Aug 2021
Orbital O2 is the latest tidal turbine to be deployed in the waters around Orkney. The turbine’s superstructure which is 74m long, floats on the surface of the water, with rotors attached to its legs which extract energy from the passing tidal flow. It has been deployed in the Fall of Warness held on station in […]
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