About Climate Change

It was the afternoon of Saturday, April 24th, 2004, and as usual it was a breathtakingly hot day in the Northern Arabian Gulf—easily over 90 degrees. I was standing watch in the Combat Information Center onboard the USS BULKELEY (DDG-84), a U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer, and we were steaming south…

I commented that I’d like to understand the actual impacts of anthropogenic climate change better than I currently do. It’s one thing to understand that if we continue to increase our emissions, we’ll continue to warm, sea level will rise, polar ice will melt, and the hydrological cycle will intensify;…

Jeremy Clark and Charlie Abrams are worried about climate change. The two fifth graders at Duniway Elementary School created the “Two Green Leaves” blog earlier this year to write about climate change from “the affected generation.” As they put it on the website: “We are aware of what climate change…

His name was Prof Bob Carter, a retired geologist speaking on behalf of the jocularly named “Non-governmental International Panel on Climate Change” (NIPCC), a ragtag band of doubting Thomases partnered with the Heartland Institute, a free-market think-tank in Chicago whose previous campaigns included…

A changing climate isn t inherently bad, and commentators who are sceptical about the risks posed by global warming often point to the benefits that higher temperatures could bring – such as longer growing seasons in cool countries and more efficient shipping routes through an ice-free Arctic. Even some…

Weather vs. Climate Weather refers to the state of the atmosphere over several minutes up to several days. It includes lots of things that should be familiar - temperature, humidity, rain, snow, wind speeds, or wind direction. Climate refers to the long-term average (and other statistics) of weather…

While nations wrangle over a new global treaty on climate change, the question on many minds is: What happens next? Key portions of the Kyoto Protocol are set to expire at the end of 2012. But many of the world s major greenhouse gas emitters have already set national targets to reduce emissions, and…

No social shares yet Newspapers increasingly published articles mentioning climate change as extreme weather hit the UK throughout February. 595 articles mentioned climate change in February – more than at any point in the past 12 months, according to our analysis of 13 of the UK’s most prominent daily…

Solar power plant at Sanlucar la Mayor, Spain. Photograph: Sipa Press / Rex Features The final instalment in the trilogy of climate change reports from the IPCC is released today. And there s some good news: the world can afford to transition to clean energy and climate change can be averted without…