Global Warming

For all the less-than-encouraging news about climate change—rapid sea-level rise, the land itself transforming, serious trouble brewing under Antarctic glaciers—we’ve been getting plenty of hope. The price of renewable energy is crashing, for example, and we’re moving toward a cleaner, electrified future faster than you may realize. That shift is…

Global warming limit of 2 degrees still possible if Paris Agreement pledges are met, say researchers Disastrous global warming of more than 2 degrees could still be avoided if all nations honour their Paris Agreement pledges to reduce carbon emissions, but research has found new commitments to deep cuts will…

Scientists have found that marine cold spells are vanishing at an alarming rate as global warming takes hold across the planet. The cold spells, which are the opposite of a heatwave and feature unseasonably exceptional cold water that can prove harmful to the marine ecosystems, are becoming less frequent and…

An international team of astronomers have used ground-based telescopes, including the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), to track Neptune’s atmospheric temperatures over a 17-year period. They found a surprising drop in Neptune’s global temperatures followed by a dramatic warming at its south pole. “This change was unexpected,”…

If we don’t act now, the Earth could warm enough to leave major cities underwater."We have the knowledge and the technology to get this done," experts concur. But politics gets in the way.These UN reports are considered the most authoritative assessments of the state of global warming.This week's United Nations climate…

The unit costs of solar energy have dropped 85% in a decade. Not only do we have the tools to slash emissions and curb global warming by 2030, but half of available carbon-cutting options are cost-free or very cheap, UN climate experts say. There is no silver bullet, but a…

The Global Climate and Health Alliance has issued its position on the Mitigation of Climate Change report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The communique proposes drastic action to provide humanity with a chance to limit overall global warming to within Paris Agreement targets. In a statement on…

Published by Reuters By Gloria Dickie (Reuters) -Drastic cuts to fossil fuel use. Growing forests and eating less meat. These are just some of the actions needed in this decade to contain global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial temperatures,…Read More

Illustration: Cathy WilcoxCredit: Your article on the latest IPCC report felt like the final nail in the coffin of the old world (“Goal of holding global warming to 1.5 degrees no longer plausible: UN”, smh.com.au, April 5). I was seven when World War II ended and too young to really…

The new United Nations climate report provides insights into what needs to be done to avert some of the worst impacts of global warming. Between the lines: The key findings in the report that dropped yesterday are stark, but are not all doom and gloom. First: In the most jarring…