Some scientists worry that the West Antarctica ice sheet could soon enter a phase of being destabilised. Photo credit: TiPACCs / Ronja Reese. By Anders Lorenzen The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), founded in 1992, has identified that six of the world’s planetary boundaries have been crossed. The Institute is led by Prof Johan Rockström who specialises in […]
A proposed tipping cascade where the AMOC would mediate a connection between the other tipping elements. Graphic credit: Nico Wunderling, Jonathan F. Donges, Jürgen Kurths, and Ricarda Winkelmann – Earth System Dynamics paper – Interacting tipping elements increase risk of climate domino effects under global warming, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia. By Anders Lorenzen In a recent study, Danish researchers […]
climate change A woman walks with cold patches on her forehead and neck amid a red alert for heatwave in Beijing, China. Photo credit: Reuters / Tingshu Wang. By Anders Lorenzen Data from the US National Centre for Environmental Protection has concluded, that Monday the 3rd of July 2023 was the hottest day ever recorded globally. Measuring 17.01 degrees C, […]
By Jeremy Williams The last book with Greta Thunberg’s name on it was a slim volume of speeches that you could read in an hour. She’s a good writer and I’ve been looking forward to something more substantial. Well, this would be it: a 446 page tome with the boldly definitive title The Climate Book. Thunberg’s message has always been […]
A woman pours water over her head to cool off during soaring temperatures in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 11 April 2023. Temperature records have been broken across Asia in recent weeks. Photo credit: Habibur Rahman /Alamy Live News. By Aditi Mukherji The heatwave sweeping across Asia has forced schools in India to shut down. With our children already paying a terrible […]
The Alps with very little snow this winter. Photo credit: EPA-EFE / Laurent Gillieron. By Anders Lorenzen Scientists from the European Union have announced that this last winter is the second-warmest in Europe on record ever. Data published by the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) shows that the average temperature in Europe from December 2022 to February 2022 was […]
Ski slopes in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina pictured in early January with barely any snow. Photo credit: Reuters / Kirsten Donovan. By Anders Lorenzen 2022 was dominated by extreme weather events, and if the start of 2023 is anything to go by, this trend is set to continue. As 2022 turned into 2023, record-high temperatures swept across the European […]
For some people, writing a letter to an elected official can be intimidating. Formal correspondence is not a regular part of life for most of us, and sometimes our politicians seem so out of touch that it’s hard to believe they have any interest in what we have to say. But elected officials do take notice when their constituents reach […]
People can’t take action against climate change if they don’t understand what it is, why it matters, or what they can do about it. Considering what’s at stake, the failure to integrate climate education into science curricula across the country begins to seem like criminal negligence at best. Even where academic science standards call for climate literacy, classroom teachers rarely […]