Global Warming

Federal President presents German Environmental Prize Osnabrück/Darmstadt. With an appeal to our sense of solidarity as a global community, yesterday (Sunday), at the darmstadtium conference centre in Darmstadt, Germany’s Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier called for a change of course to conserve biodiversity and stop global warming. At the awards ceremony…

REAL ACTION NEEDED Massive video screen outside the White House plays ad critical of the Biden administration for pledging climate action while expanding oil and gas drilling on public lands on Oct. 7, 2021 in Washington, D.C. AFP PHOTO SUVA, Fiji: Pacific island leaders have urged industrialized nations to bring…

Throughout September, as the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow approached, The Wall Street Journal ran a series of opinion articles by Bjorn Lomborg, a notorious climate “skeptic” from Denmark who has downplayed the threat of global warming. The articles purported to offer readers “a better understanding of the true…

Today’s Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI poll highlights the significant challenges the Government is likely to face in getting voters on board with initiatives to tackle climate change. Our poll was conducted between 2nd and 5th of October among a national quota sample of 1,200, representative of the about 3.6 million adults…

YouTube's reduced tolerance for misinformation now extends to climate science. The Google service has enacted a new policy barring ads and monetization for content that contradicts the "well-established scientific consensus" surrounding climate change, including videos that claim climate change is a hoax or reject the human link to global warming.…

Climate change activists have mounted a series of high-profile protests in recent months. — AFP/FileLONDON: Grappling with mounting protests from climate activists, Britain is eager to brandish its environmental credentials before the upcoming COP26 summit. Direct action group Extinction Rebellion has brought cities to a standstill and vowed to do…

2021 is a critical year for climate change. According to the Paris Climate Agreement, governments must decide now on how to reduce the amount of carbon they pump into the atmosphere in order to avoid the most devastating consequences of global warming. So, are we on track to limit global…

A report published today on a plan for a national food strategy did not just deal with what we eat, but also how we produce it in a sustainable way. If we are to ensure that farming can become carbon neutral, meat production will have to fall by almost a…

“Climate change is already affecting every region on Earth, in multiple ways. The changes we experience will increase with additional warming,” Panmao Zhai, co-chair of the group of scientists that led the report, said in a statement. The IPCC – the UN body for assessing the science related to climate change…

The report is set to be released on Monday. (Representative image: Reuters) On the heels of deadly floods in India, China and northern Europe as well as asphalt-melting heatwaves in North America and southern Europe, the IPCC's report assesses the latest climate science. AFP parisLast Updated:August 06, 2021, 19:23 ISTFOLLOW…