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EU Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard has put Hurricane Sandy in the same bracket as a series of extreme weather events predicted by climate scientists.

Anthropogenic climate change has contributed to sea surface warming, influencing the intensity of storms like Hurricane Sandy, a leading climate scientist has told EurActiv.

Manmade climate change is the main driver behind the unexpected emergence of a group of bacteria in Northern Europe which can cause gastroenteritis, new research by a group of international experts shows.

The world’s scientists are now more than 90% sure that human-caused global warming will increase the length, frequency and intensity of extreme weather events such as heat waves, the most authoritative scientific report yet on the subject says.

The world is on track for around four degrees Celsius of global warming under current carbon emissions trends, says the EU’s chief climate negotiator, a trajectory that some scientists say risks a planetary mass extinction event.

Concerns are growing in Brussels that persistent denial of human-caused global warming among Republican presidential hopefuls could damage EU-US relations and even spark a trade conflict.

Researchers have sought to speed up the ongoing Copenhagen climate talks by gathering evidence of the catastrophic impacts of accelerating global warming. But climate science has been disputed by sceptics who say such claims are unfounded.

Engineers are floating artificial trees that catch CO2 from the atmosphere as a strategy to avoiding runaway climate change. But critics sound alarm that tempering with the climate is dangerous and only global agreement on slashing CO2 emissions can get to the root of the problem.

The European Parliament's Temporary Committee on Climate Change has warned that current climate change mitigation policies are insufficient and criticised the various "scientifically unsubstantiated efforts" to discredit studies of its causes and effects.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has published a 'pocket guide' to global warming in advance of key UN climate negotiations in December, calling for swift action to avert catastrophic sea level increases and species extinction. 

As world leaders gathered in New York for a high-level UN meeting on climate change, a new report by some of the world's most renowned scientists urges policymakers to keep their eyes on the "science grapevine", arguing that their understanding of global warming is still far from complete.

Forest fires, heat waves, population displacements, disease proliferation and increased water scarcity for agriculture are some of the inevitable consequences of climate change that EU countries need to prepare for, the European Commission has warned in a new Green Paper published on 29 June.

EU Environment Commissioner Dimas was the only speaker to go beyond diplomatic politeness at the opening session of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Brussels.