The year 2016 has been confirmed as the hottest year on record, surpassing the exceptionally high temperatures of 2015, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The globally averaged temperature in 2016 was about 1.1°C higher than the pre-industrial period. It was approximately 0.83° Celsius above the long term average (14°C) of the WMO 1961-1990 read more…
Tag: Climate science
-
-
SPECIAL COP22 – From clouds to the ground: scientists to inform implementation of the Paris Agreement
The second day at COP 22 hosted the first ever “Earth Information Day”, designed as an opportunity for the scientific community to engage and provide relevant information for the implementation of the Paris Agreement’s goals. The event, hosted by the UNFCCC Secretariat, WMO and UNESCO–IOC, offered an updated overview of the state of the climate read more…
-
IPCC Session elects Bureau for Sixth Assessment Report
The 42nd Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) closed on Thursday (Oct. 8) in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Key issue in the Agenda was the election of the IPCC’s new Bureau. The meeting has also covered issues ranging from the development of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) cycle to procedural matters and budget adjustments. Discussions on the read more…
-
IPCC under scrutiny ahead of new assessment cycle
After a week of work, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) agreed on a set of decisions mainly aimed at making its reports more accessible and increasing involvement of developing countries. The Meeting was the first after the release of the Fifth Assessment Report and followed the resignation of Rajendra Pachauri as Chairman of read more…
-
Japan Meteorological Agency confirms: 2014 was the hottest year on record
Confirming the figures released in December by NASA, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) officially announced that 2014 was the warmest year since 1891 (year in which JMA started to record temperature). Specifically, the Japanese Agency (one of the four major agencies recording global temperature) reported that the average of the near-surface air temperature over land read more…
-
Current climate commitments post-2020 are not enough to stay below 2°C, study says
After the last round of international climate talks in Lima highlighted the difficulties in reaching a consensus position even in a more auspicious atmosphere than what we’ve seen the past few years, the attention now turns to the next COP21 in Paris where all countries are due to agree on a new comprehensive climate framework. Intended Nationally Determined Contributions read more…
-
Climate change threatens irreversible and dangerous impacts but all we need is the will to change, IPCC says
On Sunday, 2 November 2014 the IPCC made public the Synthesis Report of its latest assessment round on the science, impacts and solutions of climate change: the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). The Synthesis Report draws together the most significant findings from each of the three Working Groups’ reports and the two Special Reports to provide read more…
