October 8th, 2018 Rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes across all sectors of society can limit global warming to below the 1.5°C threshold, leading climate scientists have said. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) latest special report – Global Warming of 1.5 °C – released this morning, it is Read more…
August 7th, 2018 Scientists have warned that the planet is at risk of entering a Hothouse Earth scenario where large parts of the world become uninhabitable even if the Paris Agreement are met. In 2015, the Paris Agreement was signed to maintain global average temperature well below 2°C above pre-industrial Read more…
January 19th, 2017 The Earth’s global surface temperature in 2017 was the second warmest on record since 1880, according to the latest NASA data released today. According to scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), the 2017 figures are in line with the “long-term warming trend”. 2016 remains Read more…
