Fear and Wonder podcast: how climate change is affecting rainfall, droughts and floods “The wet gets wetter and the dry gets drier”. The Conversation · Apr 19, 2023
Climate change: multi-country media analysis shows scepticism of the basic science is dying out Any regular viewer of BBC’s Question Time could be forgiven for thinking that old-fashioned climate science denialism is alive and kicking. In a recent edition, panellist Julia Hartley-Brewer called the IPCC’s climate models “complete nonsense”, and dismissed the 2022 record UK heatwave and the floods in Pakistan by saying: “It’s… The Conversation · Apr 18, 2023
Could Raoul Moat have been stopped? Answers to the key questions raised after shootings and manhunt As the 2010 search for Fenham gunman is dramatized in ITV's The Hunt for Raoul Moat, we take a look at what happened next after murderer died Chronicle Live · Apr 17, 2023
Raoul Moat: How fugitive gunman's life ended after police stand-off in Rothbury The final moments of gunman's life are played out in new ITV drama The Hunt For Raoul Moat Chronicle Live · Apr 16, 2023
Fear and Wonder podcast: how scientists attribute extreme weather events to climate change Last month the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Synthesis Report of the Sixth Assessment Report. The Conversation · Apr 12, 2023
Why activists are uneasy about net-zero How the logic of carbon neutrality got “lit on fire” by big polluters Salon · Apr 12, 2023
NZ farmers worry about 'carbon leakage' if they have to pay for emissions, but they could benefit from playing the long game The recent report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) underscores the urgency of emissions reductions. For Aotearoa New Zealand, where 50% of emissions come from agriculture in the form of methane and nitrous oxide, this means the primary sector must be part of the response. The Conversation · Apr 11, 2023
Climate emergency is the biggest health crisis of our time – bigger than Covid As toll on public health and global economy rises, radical action is needed on greenhouse gas emissions The Guardian - UK · Apr 10, 2023
The untapped power of ocean winds – why New Zealand is looking offshore for future renewable energy The latest synthesis report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) makes it clear we need to prepare for intensifying impacts, while also cutting emissions dramatically. The Conversation · Apr 6, 2023
The World Will Miss the Climate Change Target. Time to Prepare. United Nations panel shows climate change is outrunning emissions goals. Our only option is to adapt. Capital & Main · Apr 4, 2023
Heat deaths in some regions could rise 60-fold by end of century, study warns Researchers found more than 80% of these deaths can be prevented if the global average temperature is kept to 2C above preindustrial levels Wales Online · Apr 4, 2023
Melting ice may strangle ocean currents Models show that currents could slow by more than 40 percent within 30 years, with potentially devastating effects Salon · Apr 3, 2023
The Case for Capping Sea-Level Rise A more tangible way to measure the harm from climate change. Foreign Affairs · Apr 3, 2023
U.N. Climate Report Recommends Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies One place where environmentalists and libertarians are on the same page Reason · Mar 31, 2023
Newcastle Herald · Mar 30, 2023 Head back to the future for frugal living, and it may save the world We may need to learn to live in a more careful way than we're used to here in the developed nations.
Al Jazeera · Mar 29, 2023 UN votes to ask world court to rule on countries’ climate duties Call for International Court of Justice to offer legal opinion on climate crisis follows campaign led by island Vanuatu.
The Conversation · Mar 29, 2023 Fear and Wonder podcast: how scientists know the sea is rising Last week, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Synthesis Report of the Sixth Assessment Report, delivering a sobering assessment of the state of our climate and the urgency of curbing emissions.
The New Daily · Mar 29, 2023 Alan Kohler: Why Australia’s emissions reduction target is not enough Climate change is still seen as a political/ideological issue, but three degrees of warming would have utterly catastrophic consequences.
Capital & Main · Mar 29, 2023 New Mexico Legislature Fails IPCC Test Record-shattering budget from oil and gas fuels a spending spree on everything except regulating oil and gas.
The Conversation · Mar 29, 2023 Climate change is accelerating – and the UK government is 'strikingly unprepared' Read successive progress reports by the Climate Change Committee (CCC), the UK government’s statutory advisor on climate change, and you sense the growing frustration. Over the years, the CCC’s assessments of the government’s response to the climate crisis have become more critical, its recommendations more explicit and the tone more…
The Guardian - US · Mar 29, 2023 US puts Italy-sized chunk of Gulf of Mexico up for auction for oil drilling In latest blow to Joe Biden’s reputation as the ‘climate president’, 73.3m acres of the gulf will be offered for fossil fuel extraction
Bangkok Post · Mar 27, 2023 IPCC report appeals to all to salvage 1.5C goal Climate scientists on March 20 appealed directly to everyone on the planet to seize a dwindling chance to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius or risk harming people living today and their descendants for thousands of years.
Belfast Live · Mar 27, 2023 Climate crisis is 'your problem' says local IPCC scientist "Emissions are the result of our individual actions"
The Guardian - US · Mar 27, 2023 Climate change is the legacy of people over the age of 60. That’s why we must protest I’m proud to be part of Third Act, a climate activist organization for people over the age of 60
Bangkok Post · Mar 26, 2023 New UN climate report clutching at straws The final report of the United Nation's climate body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has come out at last. The desperate optimism that characterised the last few volumes (this is part four of four) has frayed away to almost nothing.