Climate stabilization: Planting trees cannot replace cutting CO2 emissions

...failure to reduce emissions. However, growing biomass soon in well-selected places with increased irrigation or fertilization could support climate policies of rapid and strong emission cuts to achieve climate...
Posted On 18 May 2017
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Asian temperatures could rise disastrously

  By Tim Radford LONDON, 21 July, 2017 – Unrestrained climate change could have serious consequences by forcing Asian temperatures drastically upwards; it could limit economic growth and reverse recent...
Posted On 21 Jul 2017
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Warmer climate means US faces big losses

...the study. President Trump once dismissed global warming and climate change driven by profligate fossil fuel use as a “hoax” devised by the Chinese. But US climate research – often...
Posted On 13 Oct 2018
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Climate models forecast extreme rainfall

...change with climate warming?” Dr O’Gorman says. “We think the intensity of an event changes, and if the duration also changes, that could be significant too.”...
Posted On 24 May 2017
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More investors will spurn fossil fuels

...that manage the climate change-related financial risks associated with fossil fuels and provide income and capital growth for investors as we transition to a zero-carbon economy.” – Climate News...
Posted On 30 Jul 2017
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Summer 2023 was the hottest on record but don’t call it ‘the new normal’

...heat and downpours and drought and wildfires aren’t “caused by climate change” – they are climate change. The rise in frequency and intensity of extreme events is by definition a...
Posted On 12 Oct 2023

More harm than good with climate geo-engineering

...Sahel region of Africa, to threaten millions of lives and livelihoods, according to new research. Geo-engineering is sometimes played as humanity’s have-your-cake-and-eat-it option: humans have already unthinkingly engineered climate...
Posted On 24 Nov 2017
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Carbon Pricing and Climate Change

WASHINGTON – Companies across sectors and geographies are turning increasingly to an internal carbon price to prepare for climate-related business risks, and guide and fund investments in low-carbon solutions. A...
Posted On 18 Sep 2017
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