(Bloomberg) — Human-made climate change will continue warming the planet, with new temperature highs forecast to be recorded over the next five years, according to a report by the World Meteorological Organization. The world’s average temperatures will be between 1.2C and 1.9C higher than the average in pre-industrial times, the report said. The warming will…
(Bloomberg) — Hydrogen’s potential as a game-changing climate solution is already in doubt over its high costs and lack of industrial demand. Yet one of the biggest concerns about the gas is still not fully understood: How much is hydrogen contributing to global warming? Scientists from the US and Netherlands believe they’re on the verge…
The urban heat island effect contributes to an increase in human heat exposure and subsequent death globally during hotter seasons. | Photo Credit: AP Cities having higher ambient temperatures than rural surroundings (known as the urban heat island effect) could offset some of the negative effects of increased heat-related mortality by reducing the number of…
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — A growing industry is racing to engineer a solution to global warming using the absorbent power of the oceans. Dozens of companies and academic groups are pitching the same theory: that sinking rocks, nutrients, crop waste or seaweed in the ocean could lock away climate-warming carbon dioxide for centuries or…
Fires like those are bound to become more common and vicious in a warming world, says Mr Poddi, walking through the forest of Santu Lussurgiu, one of the areas hit that summer. So the island is preparing. As part of those preparations, Mr Poddi’s team at MEDSEA, a Sardinia-based environmental non-profit organisation, has installed 20…
(Bloomberg) — Predicting the onset and intensity of the weather-roiling El Niño and La Niña events is crucial for global markets, and meteorologists need to get the messaging right or risk sparking confusion and backlash. Australia’s forecaster, which faced criticism last year after an unusual El Niño, is taking a less-is-more approach, while the World…
Gavin Schmidt, a leading climate modeller and the boss of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Science (GISS) in New York City, is not noted for his humility. Nevertheless, writing in Nature, a journal, in March 2024, he confessed to being humbled by his inability, and that of his colleagues, to understand the extraordinary year through…
(Bloomberg Opinion) — A barrel of oil fetches about $80 on the global market. Consider the power of that price: It has driven extensive human endeavor, trillions of dollars in investment, technological breakthroughs, the creation of some of the world’s largest companies — all to extract fossil fuels from wherever in the world they can…
The year 2024 was the hottest globally, marking the first time average global temperatures surpassed the 1.5°C threshold above pre-industrial levels, said the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) on Friday. The average annual global temperature last year was 1.6°C higher than pre-industrial times (average of the 1850-1900 period), it said. With this, 2024 has overtaken…
(Bloomberg Opinion) — This year’s Climate Week NYC has begun with unusual momentum. Last year’s COP28 United Nations climate summit in Dubai resulted in unprecedented commitments. Governments agreed to triple renewable energy capacity and double the increase in energy efficiency worldwide. Half the oil and gas industry pledged to cut methane emissions by three-quarters. The…
