By Anders Lorenzen Data from the European Union (EU) shows that the world has just experienced its warmest March on record, capping a 10-month period in which every month set a new temperature record. This is according to the EU’s climate change monitoring service. The data presents clear evidence about the warming trend. The EU`s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) […]
Extinction Rebellion and Greenpeace Netherlands protests against Rabobank’s agricultural policies in the Dutch city of Utrecht last year. Photo credit: Marten van Dijl / Greenpeace. By Anders Lorenzen A coalition of green groups led by Greenpeace has in a report, found that Europe’s largest banks have failed to stop investing in climate and nature-destructive projects. The report which was published […]
By Anders Lorenzen The United Nations (UN) has released a dire warning about the scale of climate impacts reported in 2023. This week, the UN body, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said that every major global climate record was broken last year and warned that 2024 could be even worse with the highest concern being ocean heat and shrinking sea […]
By Jeremy Williams “Throughout history,” writes John Vidal, “advances in civilisation – agriculture, domestication, urbanisation and globalisation – have all been accompanied by increasing disease risk. But never before has the human population been so large, so hyper-connected and living at such high densities. We are now approaching a storm of spiralling disease risk.” That’s the argument made at the […]
By Anders Lorenzen Our daughter Our isn’t even three yet, but she’s already demonstrably determined. Her walk has a certain decisiveness, and she exudes a clear sense of purpose when she sets her mind to something. However, we needn’t look far back in history, nor is it entirely a relic of the past in many parts of the world, that girls […]
By Wahid Bhat TV and film are powerful mediums that can inform, entertain, and inspire millions of people around the world. They can also shape the public perception and awareness of the most pressing issues of our time, such as the climate crisis. However, a new study by Good Energy and the USC Norman Lear Center has found that most […]
The site of Project One. Photo credit: Ineos. By Anders Lorenzen Jim Ratcliffe, the UK’s richest man and the founder and CEO of Ineos, the petrochemical giant, who perversely pays little UK tax as he resides in the tax haven of Monaco, has won UK government backing from a giant fossil fuel project which campaigners have labelled as climate wrecking. […]
People watching the sunset during a London 2018 heatwave. By Anders Lorenzen An independent report commissioned by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, titled The London Climate Resilience Review and led by the former chair of the Environment Agency, Emma Howard Boyd, has warned that the UK’s capital is unprepared for climate-fuelled risks. As the world continues to warm in […]
By Anders Lorenzen It was long expected that 2023 was going to be the warmest year ever recorded since records began. Every month since June 2023 has on a global level been the warmest compared with corresponding months in previous years. But the extraordinary findings by the European Union’s (EU) Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), unveiled this week, were more […]
Photo credit: Ed Hawkins / University of Reading. By Anders Lorenzen At the back of record-breaking temperatures in 2023, the now iconic climate stripes created by Prof Ed Hawkins, from the University of Reading, will need a new colour added to accurately represent the warming that has occurred, the scientist have said. The stripes show the change in average annual […]