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2020 set to be 10th consecutive year with above-average temperatures

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…

By Kayle Crosson, 3 yearsDecember 3, 2020 ago
Climate Change

Climate Change: Time to tell the full story

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…

By Niall Sargent, 5 yearsAugust 7, 2018 ago
Climate Change

Extreme weather events more frequent and costly over past four decades

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…

By Felipe Wasserstein, 6 yearsApril 5, 2018 ago
Climate Change

Extreme weather events in 2017 most expensive on record, finds WMO

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…

By Felipe Wasserstein, 6 yearsMarch 28, 2018 ago
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