Next two years likely to be hottest recorded as the world’s climate reaches major turning point – but UK summers may be cooler, report predicts the UK Met Office. The world’s climate has reached a major turning point and is set to deliver record-breaking global temperatures in 2015 and 2016, according to a new report […]
New research into the impact of climate change has found that warming oceans will cause profound changes in the global distribution of marine biodiversity. In a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change an international research team modelled the impacts of a changing climate on the distribution of almost 13 thousand marine species, more […]
Seas around the world have risen an average of nearly 3 inches (8 centimetres ) since 1992, with some locations rising by more than 9 inches due to natural variation according to Nasa and its partners. Intensive research is pointing the way to the unavoidable rise and working on locational differences which can be vary […]
The Committee on Climate Change’s 2015 Progress Report to Parliament says that, whilst some progress has been made, more action is needed to reduce emissions and prepare for the impacts of climate change. It calls for joint working on “ambitious commitments to manage demand for water”, a strategy to address the increasing number of homes […]
Pollution online ‘Cleaning up municipal and industrial wastewater can be dirty business, but engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed an innovative wastewater treatment process that not only mitigates carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, but actively captures greenhouse gases as well. The treatment method, known as Microbial Electrolytic Carbon Capture (MECC), purifies wastewater in […]
MCCIP ‘The MCCIP website has recently been updated with new marine climate change news and events. Below is a brief summary of the new items that have been added. For more details on all of the items listed below, simply go to www.mccip.org.uk and go to the relevant links in the ‘news and events’ box […]
Cabot Institute colleagues have collaborated with the Climate Outreach and Information Network to produce a handbook that addresses the role of scientific uncertainty in climate science. Uncertainty has become an argument for discrediting climate science and for delaying policy responses – but if communicated effectively, it can be a stimulus for action. As the world’s […]
This is the Committee’s first report to the new Parliament and the first report under sections 36 and 59 of the Climate Change Act, covering both progress towards meeting carbon budgets and progress on adaptation to climate change. It includes the CCC’s first ever statutory assessment of the National Adaptation Programme http://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/reducing-emissions-and-preparing-for-climate-change-2015-progress-report-to-parliament/ Different editorials have lead on […]