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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.
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.
Melting of ice lid caused release of CO2 at the end of the ice age
Posted in Science on 5th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller
During the last ice age, it was thought that the deepest part of the ocean was made up of very salty, dense water, which was capable of trapping a lot of CO2.
Paris climate deal: reaction from the experts
Posted in Featured, Science on 13th Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller
While the summit delegates herald their ambitious targets, scientists and campaigners have mixed views of the deal now that an agreement has been reached: