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Virtual Reality Climate Simulator

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The Virtual Reality Climate Research Centre has been developed by the Climate Change Institute. It uses the new medium of…

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The scientific evidence

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The Earth’s climate has changed throughout history. Just in the last 650,000 years there have been seven cycles of glacial…

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  • Contribution of life in soil ‘remains largely underestimated’, says UN agriculture agency 

    Even though soil organisms play a crucial role in boosting food production, enhancing nutritious diets, preserving human health, and combating climate change, the real contribution of these tiny life forms remains largely underestimated, the UN agriculture agency (FAO) said on Friday. 

  • 2020 may be third hottest year on record, world could hit climate change milestone by 2024

    This year is on track to be one of the three hottest on record, completing a run of six years that were all hotter than any year ever measured before, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday.  

  • Climate Action: It’s time to make peace with nature, UN chief urges

    The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has described the fight against the climate crisis as the top priority for the 21st Century, in a passionate, uncompromising speech delivered on Wednesday at Columbia University in New York.

  • On Day One, President-Elect Biden Can Better Prepare Communities for the Next Disaster

    The Tuscaloosa Fire & Rescue Swift Water Team after Hurricane Sally made landfall on Sept. 16, 2020 in Baldwin County, Alabama. FEMAAfter unending attacks on science and climate change related policies by the Trump Administration, President-elect Joe Biden offers a bright light of optimism for strident action on climate change. Mr. Biden has committed to facing this “profound” climate crisis...

  • La temporada de huracanes de 2020 bate récords en EE.UU. por cantidad de tormentas, intensificación rápida

    Mapa muestra fuerza y trayectoria de ciclones tropicales en el 2020. Los azules representan depresiones tropicales, amarillos cruzados con rojo son huracanes, los tonos más oscuros indican mayor fuerza. Fuente y leyenda completa: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2020_Atlantic_hurricane_season_summary_map.png Master0Garfield, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsHemos llegado al final oficial de la temporada de huracanes, y 2020 será uno para los libros de récords. Mirando hacia...

  • Rapid Intensification and Number of Storms Make 2020 a Record Hurricane Season

    Map shows tracks and strength of Atlantic tropical cyclones in 2020. Blues are tropical depressions and tropical storms; yellow through red show hurricanes, darker shades meaning stronger ones. Source and full legend: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2020_Atlantic_hurricane_season_summary_map.png Master0Garfield, Public domain/Wikimedia CommonsAs we reach the official end of hurricane season, 2020 will be one for the record books. Looking back at these long, surprising, sometimes...

  • A Safe US Future Hinges on a Program You May Have Never Heard Of

    US Navy/Cpl. Alize SoteloThis week, USGCRP has made headlines despite this six-letter federal program hardly ever being heard of by the public. But whether we know it or not, our lives and livelihoods are entwined with the United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP). It coordinates the best climate information from the more famous three letter agencies–Department of Commerce (DOC),...

  • A Biden Presidency Means a New Day in the Fight for Climate Action

    Photo: Oleksii Sidorov/ShutterstockYou know that feeling when you awake from a long nightmare and see the sun shining outside? Yes, that’s what it feels like today. The US presidential election results have been confirmed in favor of President-elect Joe Biden, soon to be our 46th president, and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, who will be the first African American and South...

  • ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and Chevron Climate Pledges and Actions Fall Short

    Photo: John Fowler/FlickrIn an unexpectedly less terrible turn of events, 2020 has seen several oil and gas companies announce more ambitious climate targets. Just last week, ConocoPhillips released a new “net-zero” climate ambition, becoming the first US oil and gas company to do so. While that breakthrough looks impressive at first glance, we’ve found some glaring deficiencies in the company’s...

  • Prince Harry And His Fearmongering Eco-Alarmism

    ‘What if every single one of us was a raindrop?’ I have no idea what goes into the Californian drinking water, but the Duke formerly known as Prince Harry seems to have been knocking it back. (Pictured: Prince Harry’s Calif. mansion) We are fortunate indeed that, despite having fled State-side to secure greater privacy, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex continue to...

  • Study: IPCC’s Worst-Case Scenarios Already Off-Track

    Under the worst-case scenarios laid out in the United Nations’ climate change projections, global temperatures could increase as much as 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit (more than 4 degrees Celsius) by 2100, leading to as much as 3 feet (0.98 meters) in global sea-level rise and an array of disastrous consequences for people and planet. But new research from CU Boulder finds that...

  • Clean-Burning Natural Gas Banned In New Buildings In Oakland, CA

    In Oakland, a city in the state of California that has been plagued by a failing power infrastructure, the city council voted unanimously earlier this week to ban natural gas from all future constructed residential and commercial buildings. Developers can apply for a waiver to avoid complying with the ban based on “technology feasibility reasons,” and existing buildings, additions to existing...

  • Google Boosts Another False Middle-East Crop Crisis Story

    Google News is hyping a story published by Agrinews, which promotes a month-old World Bank report claiming water scarcity in the Middle East – caused by climate change – threatens crop production. The World Bank report, “Water in the Balance,” is old news, made up of model-driven speculation, instead of data. Real-world crop data, by contrast, tell a story of stunning...

  • Nationwide Blackouts Will Be America’s New Reality Under Biden

    The power disaster unfolding in California will soon occur across the country if Joe Biden gets his way. The Golden State has been sweeping away the forms of energy that have provided reliable electricity for decades, under the same agenda the former Vice-President is planning for America as a whole. Power outages are now commonplace in California. Last summer, the state suffered...

  • No, It Was Not A Record Hurricane Season. Here Are The Facts

    Inevitably the busy hurricane season this year is getting blamed on global warming: But first of all, let’s get one thing clear – there was not a record number of hurricanes this year in the Atlantic. There were 13 hurricanes, compared to 15 in 2005: https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd-faq/#tcs-after-1930 It is true that there were more named storms, which include tropical storms as well as hurricanes, this...

  • Contribution of life in soil ‘remains largely underestimated’, says UN agriculture agency 

    Even though soil organisms play a crucial role in boosting food production, enhancing nutritious diets, preserving human health, and combating climate change, the real contribution of these tiny life forms remains largely underestimated, the UN agriculture agency (FAO) said on Friday. 

  • Climate Action: It’s time to make peace with nature, UN chief urges

    The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has described the fight against the climate crisis as the top priority for the 21st Century, in a passionate, uncompromising speech delivered on Wednesday at Columbia University in New York.

  • Cut fossil fuels production to ward off ‘catastrophic’ warming: UN-backed report

    Countries must decrease production of fossil fuels by 6 per cent per year, between 2020 and 2030, if the world is to avert "catastrophic” global temperature rise, a new UN-backed report has found. 

  • Carbon dioxide levels hit new record; COVID impact ‘a tiny blip’, WMO says  

    Levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere hit a new record of 410.5 parts per million in 2019, and are expected to keep rising this year, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in its annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin on Monday.  

  • Climate crisis: ‘Nowhere near the finish line’ – UN chief 

    Pointing to its “pioneering legislation and policies”, on Thursday the UN chief hailed the 27-member European Union (EU) as a “a leader on climate action”, that had shown that it was possible to cut emissions while achieving economic growth. 

  • Climate change: UN chief calls for ‘great leap’ towards carbon neutrality

    As countries work to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic, they also have the chance to “get it right” on climate change, the UN Secretary-General told a virtual gathering of influential leaders on Monday. 

  • COVID disruption will ‘pale in comparison’ if world fails to act on climate change, SDGs

    The fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement and the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) “go hand in hand”, the UN chief told a major development bank conference on Thursday.

  • 2020 may be third hottest year on record, world could hit climate change milestone by 2024

    This year is on track to be one of the three hottest on record, completing a run of six years that were all hotter than any year ever measured before, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday.  

  • The race to zero emissions, and why the world depends on it

    A host of countries have recently announced major commitments to significantly cut their carbon emissions, promising to reach "net zero" in the coming years. The term is becoming a global rallying cry, frequently cited as a necessary step to successfully beat back climate change, and the devastation it is causing.

  • UN warns of catastrophe as second hurricane in two weeks hits Central America  

    The United Nations warned on Tuesday of catastrophic consequences from Hurricane Iota, the second major tropical cyclone to hit Central America this month.   

  • A deep dive into Zero Hunger: farming the seas

    With the world population expected to rise to 9.7 billion by 2050, food production will need to keep pace, and experts believe the Ocean can provide much of the sustenance we need. The second story in our two-part series on aquaculture focuses on the opportunities for significantly scaling up fish farming.

  • A deep dive into Zero Hunger: the seaweed revolution

    If just two per cent of the Ocean were to be sustainably farmed, the world could easily be fed, according to experts. In the first story of a two-part series looking at the opportunities and challenges facing Ocean farming, we take a look at the huge potential role of seaweed in mitigating climate change, cutting marine pollution, and achieving the...

  • New Fires Scorch the Hills of Southern California

    The state’s brutal fire season has not ended.
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  • Spring Heats Up Down Under

    The country endured its hottest spring and November on record.
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  • Early Melting Along the Antarctic Peninsula

    About a month before the start of astronomical summer in the southern hemisphere, vast areas of sea ice were already painted blue with meltwater.
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  • An Unexpected Expanse of Sand in Alaska

    Dune fields of interest to scientists who study the Red Planet stand out in the Kobuk Valley amid a backdrop of green.
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  • A Sliver of Mexico’s “Mother Mountain Range”

    The Sierra Madre Oriental is part of a chain that stretches across three continents.
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  • Outburst at Desolation Lake

    A flood in a glacial lake behind Lituya Glacier surprised an unsuspecting fisherman and reworked a young delta in Alaska.
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  • Thomsen River Estuary, Banks Island

    Sea ice and waterways along the north side of Canada’s high-Arctic island reveal compelling patterns when viewed from above.
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  • The Braided Brahmaputra

    The river’s high sediment load contributes to the abrupt change in its shape as it exits the Himalayas and hits flatter land.
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  • Painting Pennsylvania Hills

    The region of rolling hills and valleys is part of a geologic formation known as the Ridge and Valley Province that stretches from New York to Alabama.
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  • Dust Over Seas

    A plume of mineral-rich dust filled the skies over Cyprus and the Mediterranean on a summer’s day.
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  • How One Person in Pakistan Made a Difference for Air Quality

    Air pollution kills hundreds of thousands of people every year in Pakistan, yet no one was monitoring air quality. Now a group of citizen scientists is prompting change.

  • How Do Climate Models Predict Global Warming? 

    Climate models use complex equations, mountains of data and supercomputers to help us understand global warming and future changes on planet Earth.

  • Why Scientists Are So Worried About Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier

    Thwaites Glacier in western Antarctica is in serious danger. It's swiftly melting, and a collapse could cause a dramatic increase in sea level rise.

  • Whatever Happened to the Hole in the Ozone Layer?

    The discovery of the ozone hole shocked the world and propelled nations into action. Decades later, where does the problem stand?

  • Will Carbon Labels on Our Food Turn us Into Climatarians?

    Restaurants, retailers and brands are adding carbon footprint labels to food products. Is this a useful tool in curbing environmental impact, or just a marketing gimmick?   

  • "Insanely Warm" Arctic Ocean Waters Are Delaying Freeze-Up and Pouring Heat Into the Atmosphere

    In late October, sea ice off Siberia has only now begun to start freezing — an unprecedented situation for that part of the Arctic.
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