Contact: IPCC Press Office, Jonathan Lynn, ipcc-media@wmo.int, +41 22 730 8066 or Werani Zabula, +41 22 730 8120 IPCC Working Group I Media Contact, Pauline Midgley, media@ipcc.unibe.ch, +41 31 631 5620 27 September 2013 STOCKHOLM (IPCC) – Human influence on the climate system is clear. This is evident in most regions of the globe, a […]
By Christopher C. Burt27 September 2013 (wunderground.com) – September has been the wettest such on record for Moscow and flooding has swamped Sochi, the venue for the Winter Olympics next February, complicating preparations for the event. A persistent upper level low over eastern Russia has brought record precipitation to the city of Moscow this month. […]
By Stefan Rahmstorf27 September 2013 (RealClimate) – The time has come: the new IPCC report is here! After several years of work by over 800 scientists from around the world, and after days of extensive discussion at the IPCC plenary meeting in Stockholm, the Summary for Policymakers was formally adopted at 5 o’clock this […]
HANOI, 24 September 2013 (AFP) – Heavy monsoon rains exacerbated by Typhoon Usagi have pounded parts of Vietnam and Cambodia killing at least 36 people, authorities said Tuesday, with many swept to their deaths in floods. Despite not being directly hit by Usagi — the world’s most powerful storm this year — parts of Southeast […]
By Sophie Vorrath28 August 2013 (Renew Economy) – China – already the world’s second largest electricity market, largest carbon dioxide emitter, and consumer of half the world’s coal – is on course to more than double its power market in size by 2030. But with increased awareness of environmental pollution, a potential price on carbon […]
By Phil Plait23 September 2013 (Slate) – Here’s a simple quiz: How do you know when you’re about to read a forehead-slappingly silly article about climate change? Check the venue: Is it the Daily Mail, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Post, and/or anything owned by Rupert Murdoch and News Corp? If yes, then, yes. […]
By Luis Enrique Martinez, with additional reporting by David Alire Garcia and Noe Torres23 September 2013 ACAPULCO (Reuters) – The death toll from a pair of storms that flooded much of Mexico rose to 123 on Monday, and large tracts of farmland were declared lost as the country cleans up some of the worst storm […]
BEIJING, 23 September 2013 (Reuters) – For China, global warming has become something of a convenient truth. Beijing blames climate change for wreaking havoc on scarce water resources, but critics say the country’s headlong drive to build its industrial prowess and huge hydro projects are just as responsible. On the eve of a global climate […]
By Melissa Chong 22 September 2013 SINGAPORE (CNA) – The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is slated to release the first part of its latest report on climate change on September 27. Governments around the world will be watching to see what hundreds of climate scientists have to say about the potential impacts […]
By Jeremy Hance18 September 2013 (mongabay.com) – One of the richest ecosystems on the planet may not survive a hotter climate without human help, according to a sobering new paper in the open source journal PLoS ONE. Although little-studied compared to lowland rainforests, the cloud forests of the Andes are known to harbor explosions of […]
