28 Feb 2018

Climate change Update – Bruce Horton IPCC New Communications Handbook for Climate Change A new Communications Handbook, commissioned by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has been launched. It sets out six principles for effective communication, ahead of the IPCC’s 1.5 degrees special report, expected later this year.  Artic Warming An alarming heatwave in […]

05 Feb 2018

Damian Carrington Environment editor Guardian ‘Silver bullet’ to suck CO2 from air and halt climate change ruled out Scientists say climate targets cannot be met using the technologies, which either risk huge damage to the environment or are very costly. Ways of sucking carbon dioxide from the air will not work on the vast scales […]

29 Jan 2018

Two reports  1. Building Resilience in Fisheries Governance – EDF & ABPmer Report Research undertaken by ABPmer on behalf of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to consider future potential governance arrangements for fisheries in the N.E. Atlantic region is now available. Climate-related impacts on the range and distribution of commercial fish stocks are likely to […]

14 Jan 2018

1.  UK’s greenest energy year ever Carbon Brief   For the first time in 2017, more than half of the electricity generated in the UK came from low-carbon sources, Carbon Brief analysis shows. The milestone means that, between them, nuclear and renewables generated more electricity in 2017 than all fossil fuels combined. Within this total, wind […]

12 Nov 2017

Tomorrow the Environment Minister Thérèse Coffey will head to the UN Climate Change Conference in Germany to discuss our world-class marine science and leading research into ocean acidification. Defra: Saturday is ‘Oceans Action Day’ and the Minister will join leaders from around the world to address progress made on tackling climate change and its impacts […]

03 Nov 2017

Cod, herring and haddock may vanish from Scotland’s west coast waters by the turn of the century because of global warming. Researchers at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), near Oban, have predicted that by 2100 commercially important species could migrate out from this ecosystem, most likely to colder waters further north, in response […]

01 Nov 2017

Two articles: UKCP18: Schedule The UK Climate Projections 2018 (UKCP18) project outputs will have a phased release, with the core raw data products coming out in May 2018 followed by a launch of the full UKCP18 data interface and support products in November 2018. Releasing the core set of UKCP18 data in May 2018 will […]