Posts tagged with "global warming"

UN: 'unprecedented' steps to avert worst effects of global warming World

UN: 'unprecedented' steps to avert worst effects of global warming

October 8th, 2018 Society would have to enact "unprecedented" changes to how it consumes energy, travels and builds to meet a lower global warming target or it risks increases in heat waves, flood-causing storms and the chances of drought in some regions as well as the loss of species, a U.N. report said on Monday. Keeping the Earth's temperature rise...
Heatwaves, rains may become more severe World

Heatwaves, rains may become more severe

August 20th, 2018 Scorching summer heatwaves and downpours are set to become more extreme in the northern hemisphere as global warming makes weather patterns linger longer in the same place, scientists said on Monday. They said there was a risk of "extreme extremes" in North America, Europe and parts of Asia because manmade greenhouse gas emissions...
Over a billion people struggle to stay cool as Earth warms World

Over a billion people struggle to stay cool as Earth warms

July 16th, 2018 More than a billion people are at risk from a lack of air conditioning and refrigeration to keep them cool and to preserve food and medicines as global warming brings more high temperatures, a study showed on Monday. More electricity demand for fridges, fans and other appliances will add to man-made climate change unless power...
Dutch PM Rutte urges EU to cut CO2 emissions by more Europe

Dutch PM Rutte urges EU to cut CO2 emissions by more

June 13th, 2018 Europe needs to reduce its carbon emissions by more than currently planned to limit global warming as agreed under the Paris climate agreement, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told the European Parliament on Wednesday. The European Union aims to reduce carbon emissions, which scientists hold responsible for global warming, by at least...
The ifs and buts of non-linear global warning Opinion

The ifs and buts of non-linear global warning

May 27th, 2018 Here are two interesting facts. One is that the winter temperatures in the Arctic this year were the highest ever recorded. On two days in February, it was actually warmer at the North Pole than it was in Zurich, Switzerland. At one location in Greenland, the temperature rose to 36 degrees C higher than the usual average for that time of...
Artificially cooling planet may pose threat to plants, animals World

Artificially cooling planet may pose threat to plants, animals

January 22nd, 2018 Spraying chemicals into the earth's upper atmosphere to reflect more sunlight away from the planet could be one means of coping with runaway climate change, some scientists say. But employing the controversial "geoengineering" technique carries a range of risks - including that if such spraying was unexpectedly stopped, a rapid surge...
The oceans are gasping for air Opinion

The oceans are gasping for air

January 18th, 2018 The planet’s proverbial canary in the coal mine could very well be its oceans: If they lose dissolved oxygen because of climate change, the impact will be felt all the way up the food chain to people. Human-driven climate warming is causing the ocean to lose oxygen on a global scale. This is an underappreciated consequence of...
Syria plans to join Paris climate agreement, isolating US Middle East

Syria plans to join Paris climate agreement, isolating US

November 7th, 2017 Syria plans to join the 2015 Paris agreement for slowing global warming, isolating the United States as the only country opposed to the pact, delegates said on Tuesday at UN climate negotiations in Germany. Syria and Nicaragua were the only two nations outside the 195-nation pact when it was agreed in 2015, under former US president...
Carbon dioxide levels grew at record pace in 2016, UN says World

Carbon dioxide levels grew at record pace in 2016, UN says

October 30th, 2017 The amount of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere grew at record rate in 2016 to a level not seen for millions of years, potentially fuelling a 20-metre rise in sea levels and adding 3 degrees to temperatures, the United Nations said on Monday. Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), the main man-made greehouse...
US companies act on climate despite Trump - survey Americas

US companies act on climate despite Trump - survey

October 24th, 2017 US companies are still among the most ambitious in setting targets to combat global warming despite President Donald Trump's plans to quit the 195-nation Paris climate agreement, a 2017 survey showed on Tuesday. US-based firms made up a fifth of those in a 2017 'A list' of 159 companies judged to have ambitious policies on limiting...
Wine industry may suffer with global warming - research Cyprus

Wine industry may suffer with global warming - research

July 13th, 2017 By Alex Whiting Global warming may hit wine lovers where it hurts the most - the pocket - as rising temperatures are likely to increase labour costs in Europe's vineyards, including Cyprus’, researchers said on Thursday. In the hills behind Cyprus' coastal city of Limassol, grape pickers work in average peak temperatures of 36...
Trump win opens way for China to take climate leadership role US election

Trump win opens way for China to take climate leadership role

November 11th, 2016 The election of climate change skeptic Donald Trump as president is likely to end the US leadership role in the international fight against global warming and may lead to the emergence of a new and unlikely champion: China. China worked closely with the administration of outgoing President Barack Obama to build momentum ahead of the...
Greenhouse gases milestone shows need for action World

Greenhouse gases milestone shows need for action

October 24th, 2016 Greenhouse gases rose to a symbolic milestone in 2015, taking climate change into a new phase which could last generations even if governments act to curb man-made global warming, the UN World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said on Monday. Globally averaged concentrations of carbon dioxide, the main man-made greenhouse gas, reached...
Global warming to breach 2C limit by 2050 unless tougher action World

Global warming to breach 2C limit by 2050 unless tougher action

September 29th, 2016 Global warming is on track to breach a 2 degrees Celsius threshold by 2050 unless governments at least double their efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions, scientists said on Thursday. Plans by almost 200 governments to cut greenhouse gases are far too weak to match targets set in a Paris Agreement on climate change last December...
Sell last gasoline car by 2035 to meet climate goals, study says World

Sell last gasoline car by 2035 to meet climate goals, study says

September 15th, 2016 The last gasoline-powered car will have to be sold by about 2035 to put the world on track to limit global warming to the most stringent goal set by world leaders last year, a study said on Thursday. The report, by a Climate Action Tracker (CAT) backed by three European research groups, said a drastic shift was needed towards clean...
Too hot to work: global warming to cost $2 trillion in lost productivity World

Too hot to work: global warming to cost $2 trillion in lost productivity

July 19th, 2016 Rising temperatures caused by climate change may cost the world economy over $2 trillion in lost productivity by 2030 as hot weather makes it unbearable to work in some parts of the world, according to UN research published on Tuesday. It showed that in Southeast Asia alone, up to 20 per cent of annual work hours may already be lost...
Low rainfall means greater reliance on pricey desalinated water Cyprus

Low rainfall means greater reliance on pricey desalinated water

June 13th, 2016 Producing water from desalination plants is going to cost the state around €50 million this year, around €10 million more than last year. “Though this is more than last year the situation is not dire. There have been worse years,” director of the water development department Andreas Manoli said on Monday. “We will not cut...
China and US pledge to ratify Paris climate deal this year World

China and US pledge to ratify Paris climate deal this year

April 22nd, 2016 By Michelle Nichols and Valerie Volcovici China and the United States, the world's top producers of greenhouse gas emissions, pledged on Friday to formally adopt by the end of the year a Paris deal to slow global warming, raising the prospects of it being enforced much faster than anticipated. The United Nations said some 174...
China wants ships to use faster Arctic route opened by global warming World

China wants ships to use faster Arctic route opened by global warming

April 20th, 2016 China will encourage ships flying its flag to take the Northwest Passage via the Arctic Ocean, a route opened up by global warming, to cut travel times between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, a state-run newspaper said on Wednesday. China is increasingly active in the polar region, becoming one of the biggest mining investors in...
Non-Linear Climate Emergency Opinion

Non-Linear Climate Emergency

April 19th, 2016 If you spend a lot of time talking to scientists about climate change, there’s one word you’ll hear time and time again, and yet it’s hardly ever mentioned in the public discussion of climate change. The word is “non-linear”. Most people think of global warming as an incremental thing. It may be inexorable, but it’s also...
Heat kills: Global warming surge may rout Great Barrier Reef's natural defences World

Heat kills: Global warming surge may rout Great Barrier Reef's natural defences

April 14th, 2016 A heat surge from global warming would overwhelm the natural ability of coral in Australia's Great Barrier Reef to survive seasonal temperature changes, in much the way sun bathers would burn if they did not build their tan slowly. A study released on Thursday examined 27 years of temperature data along the world's biggest reef. It...
Carbon emissions highest in 66 million years, since dinosaur age World

Carbon emissions highest in 66 million years, since dinosaur age

March 21st, 2016 By Alister Doyle The rate of carbon emissions is higher than at any time in fossil records stretching back 66 million years to the age of the dinosaurs, according to a study on Monday that sounds an alarm about risks to nature from man-made global warming. Scientists wrote that the pace of emissions even eclipses the onset of the...
Earth Hour marked at presidential palace Cyprus

Earth Hour marked at presidential palace

March 20th, 2016 An event was held at the presidential palace on Saturday night to mark the annual Earth Hour in which lights are turned off for an hour to symbolise energy saving across the planet. "This symbolic action aims not only to inform but also to enable all citizens to take measures against climate change," said President Nicos Anastasiades,...
Record hot years almost certainly caused by man-made warming World

Record hot years almost certainly caused by man-made warming

January 25th, 2016 By Alister Doyle A record-breaking string of hot years since 2000 is almost certainly a sign of man-made global warming, with vanishingly small chances that it was caused by random, natural swings, a study showed on Monday. Last year was the hottest since records began in the 19th century in a trend that almost all scientists blame...
Still air traps smog in China's capital triggering 'red alert' (Updated) World

Still air traps smog in China's capital triggering 'red alert' (Updated)

December 8th, 2015 By Sui-Lee Wee and Ben Blanchard A blanket of humid air trapping smog brought Beijing's first pollution "red alert" on Tuesday although many residents ignored warnings to limit time outdoors and authorities said the pollution would last several more days. Hundreds of people, including toddlers, packed Tiananmen Square to watch a...
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