About Climate Change

At the UN climate summit in Copenhagen, 192 governments are aiming for a new global agreement to constrain greenhouse gas emissions and curb human-induced climate change. But some commentators are unconvinced that rising greenhouse gas emissions are the cause of modern-day warming. Either they say the…

Steps Understand the meaning of climate change. Climate change was a term first coined at the beginning of the twentieth century to cover shifts in climate. In the 1970s, scientists started noticing a gradual warming of the planet, and chose the term global warming to reflect this. Nowadays, although…

Republican consultant Ed Rogers is highly confidant there s no major international climate summit happening this year. Photo: PBS Ed Rogers is not some random goofball spouting off at the local bar, or a talk-radio shouting head paid to rile up the yokels. According to his author tagline in the Washington…

In recent years, the issue of climate change - and what we can do to prevent further changes to the planet s natural eco-systems - has taken centre stage on the world political agenda. There s been plenty of talk, but what is actually being done to stop climate change? From the Kyoto treaty to smaller…

Global warming is the increase of earth’s average surface temperature due to the effect of greenhouse gases. These greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane absorb heat that would otherwise escape from earth. Global warming has emerged has one of the most biggest environmental issue in the…

President Barack Obama participates in a Twitter Q&A at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, May 28, 2015. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) The President just wrapped up on Twitter - but the conversation doesn t end here: — President Obama (@POTUS) Ahead of the hurricane…

According to the third U.S. National Climate Assessment, “Global climate is changing and this is apparent across the United States in a wide range of observations. The global warming of the past 50 years is primarily due to human activities, predominantly the burning of fossil fuels.” Mandated at least…

Kerry Emanuel James West/Climate Desk At this point, climate change is so politicized that it s difficult for the general public to sort out what scientists really know—and don t know—about it. Penned by Kerry Emanuel, an atmospheric sciences professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, this…

By Brian Kahn and Andrea Thompson But the report is also chock full of illustrative tables and diagrams that make the effects of global warming clear at a glance (and some not so much). After all, it’s one thing to read a description of the rise in flood risk expected to occur along the world’s coasts…