Tag: global warming

All nations will suffer the effects of a warmer world, but the world's poorest countries will suffer most from food shortages, rising sea levels, cyclones and drought, the World Bank’s new report on climate change says.

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

A leading British academic has called for accelerated research into futuristic geo-engineering and a worldwide nuclear power station "binge" to avoid runaway global warming.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned yesterday (16 July) that global warming will accelerate at a dramatic rate unless leaders reach a deal on limiting greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible.

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.

Global warming is 'real' and temperatures have climbed steadily over the past decades, a long-awaited, independent study has found, refuting sceptics' claims that there isn't enough evidence to assert that the world climate is changing.

A special meeting of the United Nations Security Council is due to consider whether to expand its mission to keep the peace in an era of climate change.

A leading climate professor says that new evidence which further reinforces the connection between global warming and extreme rainfall is "extremely important" in setting out a methodology which could one day be used to sue energy companies for climate damage.

Scientists at an Arctic tipping point conference in Norway are trying to agree terms for an early warning system that could monitor sudden climate shifts, such as the much-feared melting of glaciers.

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.

While Germany successfully managed its dual presidency of the European Union and G8 in 2007, a year later the country stands accused of making weak and contradictory commitments on many issues, particularly foreign and social policies, write Claire Demesmay and Hans Stark in a March paper for the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI).

An unprecedented rise in global temperatures due to man-made climate change is releasing unnatural levels of CO2 into the earth's atmosphere, according to Léa Malebranche of Total Energies. Her spring 2008 paper argues that it is time for governments to initiate changes in human behaviour to stop this trend.

Global temperatures are likely to continue increasing for the next 100 years and far beyond unless there are "dramatic changes in human behaviour", writes glaciologist Robert H Thomas for Environmental Research Web.

The European Commission is to set up a €50 million fund to help developing nations fight global warming, the EU executive announced on September 18.

More than 20 people have died in south-eastern Europe as a result of unusually high temperatures and forest fires, intense rains and floods have hit the UK, and a tornado was reported in Poland amid growing concerns about the impacts of climate change.

CO2 emissions worldwide were 16% higher in 2003 than in 1990, according to the World Bank's 2007 "Little Green Data Book". Meanwhile, the WWF issued its annual ranking of Europe's top polluting power stations with coal-fired plants in Germany, the UK and Poland accounting for the bulk of greenhouse-gas emissions.

Political instability, failed states, wars over scarce resources and millions of climate refugees are some of the 'doom-and-gloom' scenarios in a report published by a leading US military think-tank.

After a marathon session, scientific experts and government delegates adopted the policy makers' summary of the second 2007 IPCC climate change report. Global warming is already happening and the poorest of the poor will be the biggest victims, confirms the report.

EU leaders have agreed to cut emissions of greenhouse gases by up to 30% within 13 years but the real battle will be in convincing the world's other big polluters to follow suit, according to business leaders.

The Global Roundtable on Climate Change, a coalition of leaders of several large corporations, has urged politicians to take urgent world-wide action to fight climate change.

In response to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) latest report, a group of prominent scientists have warned that global warming is but one symptom of an overstretched planet. At the same time, the US government has given its full support to the report's findings on global warming.

A recent conference held by German think-tank, Ecologic, debated the best means of tackling the problem of global warming, comparing the Kyoto Protocol with other international initiatives such as AP6.

New scientific modelling suggests the earth's average temperature could rise by 7.8°C by 2300 if fossil fuel consumption remains unchanged, with polar ice caps melting and seas rising by seven meters.

The Commission has published a study concluding that it is feasible to include aviation in the EU's CO2 emissions trading scheme. It says that the public widely accept the idea despite the fact that this would lead to a rise in ticket prices.