climate

Obama climate initiative: Supreme Court calls halt

Posted in Featured, Science on 10th Feb, 2016
by Alex Muller

President Barack Obama's plans to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide from US power plants have been stalled by the US Supreme Court.

Records near impossible without manmade climate change

Posted in Featured, Science on 26th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller

New calculations shows there is just a 0.01% chance that recent run of global heat records could have happened due to natural climate variations.

We narrowly missed a new ice age, and now we wont see one for a very long time

Posted in Science on 13th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller

An ice age is not going to happen any time soon. Our current breakneck emissions of greenhouse gases have ensured that.

2015 Unambiguously the Hottest Year on Record

Posted in Science on 13th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller

The international community has set a goal of limiting warming to no more than 2 C above pre-industrial levels; the Earth is now approximately half way to that limit.

Giant icebergs play 'major role' in ocean carbon cycle

Posted in Science on 12th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller

Giant icebergs could be responsible for the processes that absorb up to 20% of the carbon in the Southern Ocean's carbon cycle, a study suggests.