Climate change

Greenhouse gas levels hit new record highs, locking in more long-term temperature increase. The intensifying El Niño may lead to a further surge. New WMO Greenhouse Gas Bulletin provides authoritative scientific information on the state of our climate. 👉

Exceeding 1.5°C of warming is now unavoidable. But how much further temperatures rise depends on how quickly we cut emissions. The new #EmissionsGap Report shows how deep those cuts must be to limit warming and make a return to 1.5°C possible. Explore the findings:

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change faces perhaps the most serious crisis in its nearly 40-year history — but it is too precious to lose

Today, the greatest threat of extinction we face is not asteroids or climate change or disease or famine. It’s society’s refusal to heed the warnings of scientists.

🌡️It’s now certain: the world will exceed 1.5°C of warming, at least temporarily. That means even more intense weather extremes, fires, glacier melt and sea-level rise.   But we can still bring temperatures back down this century, and it will take going beyond net zero.   Net zero stops temperatures from rising. Going net negative, by removing more CO2 from the atmosphere than we emit, brings them back down.  The good news: we already know how to get there. Read the new Insights article from @WRIClimate: #ClimateScience #NetZero #CarbonRemoval #ClimateAction

Since the 1960s, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased by more than 30%. The average portion of the planet likely to be covered by heat storms and heat waves has risen more than 12-fold. Explore the first in our series on this climate phenomenon

The heart, kidneys and lungs already work harder to handle stress as we age. Now a hotter, more polluted and more unpredictable world is making their job even harder

Am departing presidential councils. Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world.

Walking away from Paris treaty is a mistake. Climate change is real. We owe our children more. Protecting our future also creates more jobs.

The U.S was the world’s only major economy to see greenhouse gas emissions go up significantly last year. It happened as the Trump administration gutted pollution safeguards and forced dirty coal plants to stay running.

Powerful El Niño could drive a further increase in CO2 levels.

7 out of the 16 climate markers are being pushed to the brink. While things look dark, they can still be changed.

Over the years, sea levels have been rising due to climate change.

Donald Trump on climate change: "These fools are talking about climate change… They think the planet's gonna burn up. They have no idea. It's the weather." (2024) Fact-check: Climate is not weather.

Top Ten Fun Facts about what climate change is doing to Florida’s home insurance market: Fact #1 is that it’s already the most expensive in the country, and predicted to double or triple in years ahead. 🧵

"AI will cure cancer. AI will solve climate change." Yes, but... Next time you hear the bosses of the big AI companies say this to justify the gigantic costs of data centres to power their Large Language Models, bear this video in mind. In short - it's the wrong type of AI.

Despite a possible plateau in global greenhouse-gas emissions last year, average temperatures are set to hurtle past 2 °C

Current policies put the world on course for up to 2.8°C of warming this century. That means greater risk from extreme heat, floods and wildfires. But this future isn’t inevitable. Fast emissions cuts can limit warming and reduce risks to people and nature. More in the new #EmissionsGap report:

Losing more ground in the fight against climate change, humanity is heading for a hotter world than experts projected last year, and the U.S. is a big reason for that, a new U.N. report says.

Odd. No one is in denial of America’s Aug 21 total solar eclipse. Like Climate Change, methods & tools of science predict it.