07 Jul 2014

The false balance issue has been long recognized in the climate change debate – now some action by the BBC has been taken to redress this.   LSE Press release 26 June, 2014  ‘Responding to the decision by the BBC Editorial Complaints Unit to uphold a complaint about an interview with Lord Lawson on climate […]

07 Jul 2014

Met Office:  Extreme summer rainfall may become more frequent in the UK due to climate change, according to new research led by the Met Office in collaboration with Newcastle University. The new study, from the joint Met Office and NERC funded CONVEX project, uses a state-of-the-art climate model providing the first evidence that hourly summer […]

01 Jul 2014

Natural England and the RSPB, in partnership with the Environment Agency’s Climate Ready Support Service and the Forestry Commission have published a new resource for conservation practitioners, ‘Climate change adaptation manual: evidence to support nature conservation in a changing climate’. Natural England and the RSPB, in partnership with the Environment Agency’s Climate Ready Support Service […]

21 Jun 2014

Former Treasury economist Lord Nicholas Stern will today reiterate his call for governments to put a strong price on carbon, with a new paper that warns the bulk of research to date on the topic may have underestimated the costs of climate change. In a paper due to be published in The Economic Journal, Stern […]

15 Apr 2014

IPCC  ‘The Working Group III contribution assesses the options for mitigating climate change and their underlying technological, economic and institutional requirements. It transparently lays out risks, uncertainty and ethical foundations of climate change mitigation policies on the global, national and sub-national level, investigates mitigation measures for all major sectors and assesses investment and finance issues.’ […]

01 Apr 2014

No warming hiatus for extreme hot temperatures      While there are claims that there has been a hiatus in global average temperatures, no such hiatus has occurred at the extreme end of the temperature spectrum. New research shows extremely hot temperatures over land have dramatically and unequivocally increased in number and area despite claims that the […]

01 Apr 2014

The Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) will consist of three Working Group (WG) Reports and a Synthesis Report. The first Working Group Report was published in 2013 and the rest will be completed in 2014. WG II Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability – 31 March 2014 is getting the headlines currently. WG I: The Physical Science      […]