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 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 […]
By Anders Lorenzen There can be no doubt that, despite it not being much of a surprise amongst the followers of climate science, 2023 is confirmed to be the warmest year ever recorded. It is the number one story and, even though it was anticipated, it is still scary news and confirms we are heading into uncharted territory. The situation […]
Parts of the clean energy sector have had a difficult year, but things could improve in 2024. By Anders Lorenzen 2023 is the warmest year ever recorded since records began, the year has throughout the planet set one climate-induced extreme weather event after the other, the latest scientific research on climate change gets bleaker and bleaker, and world leaders only […]
Photo credit: Fernando Astasio / Adobe Stock. By Anders Lorenzen As the UN climate summit, COP28, kicked off in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Thursday, the United Nations (UN) body the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) delivered another stark warning. In its provisional State of the Global Climate report, they confirmed, that not only is 2023 on track to be […]
By Anders Lorenzen On the eve of the COP28 climate summit, scientists at the United Nations (UN) warned that the world is on track for 3 degrees C of warming by the end of this decade. This is double the target that world leaders agreed to in 2015 when the Paris Agreement deal was struck and subsequently implemented. But with […]
Photo credit: iStock. By Anders Lorenzen On the eve of the COP28 UN climate summit, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a United Nations (UN) body, has warned that the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG) is forecast to continue the trend that resulted in record-high CO2 measurements last year. The agency said that in 2022 the global average concentrations of […]
By Anders Lorenzen Analysis by the Net Zero Tracker has established, that even though half of the world’s 2,000 biggest listed companies have set targets to reach net-zero emissions by the middle of this century, only a fraction have met the targets set out in the United Nations (UN) guidelines. Net Zero Tracker, an independent data consortium including Oxford University, […]
Sir David King addresses the audience at the Net Zero Festival. Photo credit: Anders Lorenzen. By Anders Lorenzen The former Chief Scientist for the UK Government, Sir David King did not hold back the scientific reality of years of climate inaction when he addressed the audience at the Net Zero Festival in London, organised by Business Green, a clean energy […]