Cautious response to UK climate projections

Long-awaited projections of how climate change will impact the UK have been met with caution by scientists. Read more
Long-awaited projections of how climate change will impact the UK have been met with caution by scientists. Read more
Level 7 of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre is situated above Level 8, and Level 6 is higher still. Once you find your way around, it’s seems the perfect place to study atmospheric inversions and other climatological phenomena. That’s what is happening at the centre this week during the Joint Assembly of the American and Canadian Geophysical Unions, along with a half-dozen other Earth and space science societies. Read more
This week’s Nature has an extended climate special made of original research papers, features, commentaries, editorials, essays and book reviews. Here’s the content at a glance. Read more
Last year, I reported on efforts to merge climate modelling with weather forecasting to create probabilistic climate predictions, with the ultimate aim of providing information that could aid adaptation. Read more
As speculation grows that agreeing a global deal on climate change may extend well beyond the 2009 deadline, the risk of overshooting the EU’s target to limit the increase in global temperature to 2°C over pre-industrial levels looks increasingly likely. Read more
Whether peak oil is good news for the climate ultimately depends on what replaces oil as our staple fuel source. It will be unsurprising to most that replacing dwindling oil reserves with coal would do little to solve the climate problem, but how much coal remains is also highly uncertain, according to Prof. David Rutledge of Caltech, who spoke to the press at the AGU this morning. Read more
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