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4 days ago · The amount of heat stored in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico has reached record levels this month amid an unprecedented marine heatwave. These temperatures, themselves made 200-500 times more likely by climate change, played a key role in causing the hurricanes devastating the US this year to be more intense, according to …
Mapped: Climate change laws around the world - Carbon Brief
May 11, 2017 · In 1997, the database shows, there were just 60 laws in place, with the figure having risen 20-fold to reach 1,260 today. During that time, the stock of climate laws has doubled every four or five years. Climate change laws around the world. Legislative laws are passed by parliaments, whereas executive laws or policies are enacted by governments.
Features The most influential climate change papers of all time
Jul 6, 2015 · T. Wetherald published in the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences in 1967 tops the Carbon Brief poll as the IPCC scientists’ top choice for the most influential climate change paper of all time. Entitled, “Thermal Equilibrium of the Atmosphere with a Given Distribution of Relative Humidity”, the work was the first to represent the ...
Factcheck: Why the UK will not run out of oil, coal or gas in five ...
May 16, 2014 · Here’s what the BBC says: “In just over five years Britain will have run out of oil, coal and gas, researchers have warned. A report by the Global Sustainability Institute said shortages would increase dependency on Norway, Qatar and Russia.”. We spoke to Dr Aled Jones, director of the Global Resource Observatory that produced the research.
Q&A: Why methane levels are rising with no ‘hint of a decline’
Sep 10, 2024 · Levels of methane in the atmosphere have soared by record-breaking amounts since 2020, according to new research. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that locks in around 80 times more warming over the course of two decades than CO2, but fades more quickly from the atmosphere.. As a result, cutting methane emissions is widely viewed as a crucial part of near-term efforts to tackle climate change.
Analysis: Record-low price for UK offshore wind is nine times …
Jul 8, 2022 · Simon Evans. A UK government auction has secured a record 11 gigawatts (GW) of new renewable energy capacity that will generate electricity nine times more cheaply than current gas prices. The projects are all due to start operating within the next five years up to 2026/27 and have agreed to generate electricity for an average price of £48 per ...
Analysis: Why US carbon emissions have fallen 14% since 2005
Aug 15, 2017 · In Carbon Brief’s analysis, overall CO2 emissions are around 18% lower than they would have been, if underlying factors had not changed, and 14% lower than their 2005 peak. No single factor is responsible for more than a third of total declines in US CO2. Increases in gas electricity generation is the largest driver, accounting for 33% of the ...
Study: Why troposphere warming differs between models and …
Jun 21, 2017 · To track temperatures, scientists use satellites, which have been providing data since they were first launched in the late 1970s. Since around the start of the 21st century, the tropospheric warming recorded by satellites has been slower than the rate projected by climate models. In a new study, published in Nature Geoscience, researchers find ...
‘Significant shift’ away from coal as most new steelmaking is now ...
The bulk of steelmaking around the world still relies on coal-based blast furnaces. As a result, the steel and iron industry is responsible for 7% of greenhouse gas emissions and 11% of carbon dioxide emissions globally, according to the consultancy firm Global Efficiency Intelligence.. This is more than the total emissions from all the world’s cars and vans.
UK misses deadline to submit nature pledge ahead of UN COP16 ...
Oct 2, 2024 · The UK will miss the UN’s deadline to publish a new national plan for how it will address nature loss ahead of the COP16 biodiversity summit in Colombia this month, Carbon Brief understands. At COP15 in 2022, countries agreed to submit new national nature plans – known as “national biodiversity strategies and action plans”, or NBSAPs ...