22 Jul 2014
Climate Change Committee: ‘This is our sixth statutory report to Parliament on progress towards meeting carbon budgets. In it we consider the latest data on emissions and their drivers. This year the report also includes a full assessment of how the first carbon budget (2008-2012) was met, drawing out policy lessons and setting out what […]
07 Jul 2014
The false balance issue has been long recognized in the climate change debate – now some action by the BBC has been taken to redress this. LSE Press release 26 June, 2014 ‘Responding to the decision by the BBC Editorial Complaints Unit to uphold a complaint about an interview with Lord Lawson on climate […]
07 Jul 2014
Met Office: Extreme summer rainfall may become more frequent in the UK due to climate change, according to new research led by the Met Office in collaboration with Newcastle University. The new study, from the joint Met Office and NERC funded CONVEX project, uses a state-of-the-art climate model providing the first evidence that hourly summer […]
01 Jul 2014
Natural England and the RSPB, in partnership with the Environment Agency’s Climate Ready Support Service and the Forestry Commission have published a new resource for conservation practitioners, ‘Climate change adaptation manual: evidence to support nature conservation in a changing climate’. Natural England and the RSPB, in partnership with the Environment Agency’s Climate Ready Support Service […]
21 Jun 2014
Former Treasury economist Lord Nicholas Stern will today reiterate his call for governments to put a strong price on carbon, with a new paper that warns the bulk of research to date on the topic may have underestimated the costs of climate change. In a paper due to be published in The Economic Journal, Stern […]
17 Jun 2014
At a time when every right-wing denier seems to be sniping at climate change in UK, Barack Obama is showing leadership on climate change (continue) By JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — ‘President Barack Obama launched a show of support Friday for new emissions rules for power plants, putting the weight of the […]
15 Apr 2014
IPCC ‘The Working Group III contribution assesses the options for mitigating climate change and their underlying technological, economic and institutional requirements. It transparently lays out risks, uncertainty and ethical foundations of climate change mitigation policies on the global, national and sub-national level, investigates mitigation measures for all major sectors and assesses investment and finance issues.’ […]
01 Apr 2014
No warming hiatus for extreme hot temperatures While there are claims that there has been a hiatus in global average temperatures, no such hiatus has occurred at the extreme end of the temperature spectrum. New research shows extremely hot temperatures over land have dramatically and unequivocally increased in number and area despite claims that the […]
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