August 10, 2017 The National Centers for Environmental Information of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released an international report detailing the following dismaying facts: Greenhouse gases highest on record. Global surface temperature highest on record. Global lower tropospheric (the troposphere is the area just above the Earth’s surface) … Continue reading
Category Archives: Climate Change
The U.S. Officially Notified the U.N. of Intention to Withdraw from Paris Climate Pact
August 5, 2017 The United States officially notified United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres of the country’s intention to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change as soon as it is eligible to do so.
Study: Earth likely to warm more than 2 degrees Celsius this century
August 5, 2017 A study from the University of Washington shows only a 5% chance that Earth will warm 2 degrees or less by the end of the century and a 90% chance that temperatures will increase by 2.0 to 4.9 degrees Celsius.
Study: Extreme Weather to Kill 152,000 Europeans a Year by 2100
August 5, 2017 A study in The Lancelet Planetary Health journal found that weather disasters could kill as many as 152,000 Europeans a year if greenhouse gas emissions and extreme weather events are not controlled. The study covers the 28 countries of the European Union plus Iceland, Norway and Switzerland.
Anthropomorphic Climate Change Warning in 1912
June 9, 2017 Yes indeed. This 1912 (the age of coal-fired Dreadnought class battleships, railroads and factories, few horseless carriages and no airplanes) Popular Mechanics article accurately described anthropomorphic climate change and warned us of its consequences. No one listened, no one cared, and here we are, rushing to the … Continue reading
Reneging the Paris Climate Agreement
June 4, 2017 On June 1, 2017, as expected, President Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement based on his conclusion that it would “undermine our economy, hamstring our workers, weaken our sovereignty … and put us at a permanent disadvantage to the … Continue reading
Decarbonization Plan for 2050
A 2014 report (external link in English, large .pdf file, 218 pages) prepared by teams of energy experts from the world’s 15 largest economies under the auspices of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), a global initiative for the United … Continue reading
Committed (future) Emissions of Carbon Dioxide, August 2014
The first worldwide report (in English) on future emissions of carbon dioxide, also known as “committed emissions,” prepared by Steve J Davis (Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697) and Robert H Soicolow (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544), published by … Continue reading
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Report -September 2014
A World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report (in English) reveals that between 2012 and 2013, carbon dioxide increased by 2.9 parts per million (ppm) to an average of 396 ppm. The chart below shows how average CO2 levels have risen over time.
Carbon Index -September 2014
This September 2014 Low Carbon Economy Index by multinational accounting firm Pricewaterhouse-Coopers measures how G-20 countries are performing relative to their agreement at the 2009 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to do what they must to keep global temperatures within 2 degrees Celsius of pre-industrial levels. The result: … Continue reading