3 December 2020 This year is on course to be the 10th consecutive year above normal temperatures in Ireland, according to new data from Met Éireann. The agency published its analysis yesterday in conjunction with the World Meteorological Organisation’s (WMO) Provisional Statement on the State of Global Climate in 2020. Read more…
August 7th, 2018 The data is sound. The warnings are clear. And the evidence is mounting. The impacts of climate change are well and truly upon us, with the latest heatwave hitting the Iberian Peninsula and the rest of mainland Europe the latest in a long line of extreme weather Read more…
April 5th, 2018 Extreme weather events have become more frequent and more costly over the past four decades, according to a new report from Europe’s leading science academies. The report from the European Academies` Science Advisory Council (EASAC) found that the number of floods and other hydrological events across the Read more…
March 28th, 2018 The economic cost of severe weather and climate events in 2017 was the most expensive on record, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has found. The report – Statement on the State of the Global Climate in 2017 – states that German reinsurer Munich Re estimated total losses from Read more…