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Climate change: July ‘marginally’ warmest month on record
Image copyright Getty Images A preliminary analysis of global temperature data for July suggests it may have “marginally” become the warmest month on record. Figures from the first 29 days of a month marked by heatwaves are “on a par” or slightly higher than the record set in July 2016. The assessment was carried out …
Climate change: UK’s 10 warmest years all occurred since 2002
Image copyright Getty Images The top 10 warmest years on record in the UK have all occurred since 2002, a new analysis from the Met Office says. Its State of the UK Climate report shows that 2014 remains the warmest year in a temperature sequence now dating back to 1884. Despite last summer’s blistering heat, …
Greta Thunberg to sail Atlantic for climate conferences
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionThe Swedish teen behind the climate strikes Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has accepted a ride across the Atlantic by boat to attend two key climate conferences. The teenager will make the journey aboard the Malizia II, a high-speed 18-metre (60ft) yacht built to race around the …
Ethiopia ‘breaks’ tree-planting record to tackle climate change
Image caption Some government offices have been shut down to allow civil servants to take part in the campaign Ethiopia has planted more than 350 million trees in a day, officials say, in what they believe is a world record. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is leading the project, which aims to counter the effects of …
The climate change candidate’s secret weapon: His health care record
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law the nation’s first public option. Jay Inslee is running for president as the climate change candidate. But the two-term Washington state governor can credibly claim to have accomplished more than most of his peers on health care, a signature issue in the 2020 campaign. Story Continued Below He …
Tim Flannery: Climate change – very big and fast moving
Tim Flannery, chief councillor of Climate Council Australia, has warned about the pace of climate change. He told Hardtalk’s Shaun Ley: “We are seeing a change of such a large scale it is hard to find an analogy to it in the previous fossil record and of such speed – it’s happening 30 times faster …
Climate change: Current heating ‘unparalleled’ in 2,000 years
Image copyright Getty Images The speed and extent of current global heating exceeds any similar event in the past 2,000 years, researchers say. They show that famous historic events like the “Little Ice Age” don’t compare with the scale of warming seen over the last century. The research suggests that the current warming rate is …
‘Restore UK bogs’ to tackle climate change
Image copyright Getty Images Restoring peat moors degraded by farming may prove a relatively inexpensive way of tackling climate change, a report shows. Wet peat bogs store carbon that’s been sucked from the air by plants, but many bogs have been drained for farming. As drained peat dries, CO2 is produced – so in that …
Climate change is the public-health challenge of this century
As leaders of leading physician organizations in Washington state, including support from the Washington Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Washington Academy of Family Physicians, we publicly supported Gov. Jay Inslee’s and the Washington state Legislature’s recent policy success to transition our state to a 100% carbon-free electricity grid. This is an …
Europe Wants to be World’s Climate Change Police with Green Deal
Europe’s new top bureaucrat wants to breathe new life into the continent’s long-cherished dream of being the world’s climate cop. By fall, it should be clear whether she has any chance of succeeding. Ursula von der Leyen, confirmed on Tuesday as the next president of the European Union’s powerful Commission, certainly talked a good Green …
