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Scientists Show Damage Costs Increase at Higher Rate than Sea-Level Rise

Damages from extreme events like floods are even more relevant than the mean sea level itself when it comes to the costs of climate impacts for coastal regions. However, while it is now rather well understood how sea-levels will rise in the future, only small progress has been made estimating how the implied damage for cities at the coasts will increase during the next decades.

29 Feb 2016

Researchers Develop and Test Framework Based on Consumer's Accountability for Carbon Emission

How much do consumers care about the carbon footprint of the products they buy? Would they care more if the goods were labeled with emissions data? Does it matter at which stage in the lifecycle of a product the carbon is emitted? Research published in the International Journal of Environmental Policy and Decision Making offers a way to find out.

29 Feb 2016

Researchers Propose Carbon Budget for Keeping Global Warming Below 2°C

In a comprehensive new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers propose a limit to future greenhouse gas emissions--or carbon budget--of 590-1240 billion tons of carbon dioxide from 2015 onwards, as the most appropriate estimate for keeping warming to below 2°C, a temperature target which aims to avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change.

25 Feb 2016

New Model Determines How Efficiently Oceans Will Continue to Soak Up CO2 Humans Emit

Since pre-industrial times, the world's oceans have absorbed 41 percent of the carbon dioxide humans have released into the atmosphere. The remainder stays airborne, warming the planet.

25 Feb 2016

New Model Helps Predict Impact of Changing Climate on Forests over Thousands of Years

It can take Mother Nature 1,000 years to grow a forest. But Nikolay Strigul, assistant professor of mathematics and statistics at Washington State University Vancouver, can grow one on a computer in three weeks.

25 Feb 2016

MIT Economist Supports Carbon Tax to Make up for Disparity in Energy Costs

In recent years, proponents of clean energy have taken heart in the falling prices of solar and wind power, hoping they will drive an energy revolution. But a new study co-authored by an MIT professor suggests otherwise: Technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead us to continue using all the oil, gas, and coal we can, unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions.

25 Feb 2016

University of California Commits to Emit Net Zero Greenhouse Gases by 2025

For Susanna Hecht, the future of life on this planet as we know it is a matter of degrees — a scant few at that.

24 Feb 2016

High Concentration of CO2 in Soil Can Change Community of Organisms Living in Soil

A high concentration of carbon dioxide gas in the soil can change the community of organisms living in the soil in the long term. At the same time it changes processes in this ecosystem like the subterranean carbon cycle and carbon storage.

24 Feb 2016

Plants and Decomposing Material in Soil Emit More CO2 than Fossil Fuels

In the concrete jungle at the core of a city, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are dominated by the fossil fuels burned by the dense concentrations of cars and buildings.

24 Feb 2016

Reducing U.S. Climate Emissions Could Prevent Pollution-Related Premature Deaths by 2030

Reducing U.S. climate emissions enough to avoid a 2-degree Celsius increase in global warming could prevent up to 175,000 pollution-related premature deaths nationwide by 2030 and generate health benefits of about $250 billion annually, according to a new analysis by researchers at Duke University and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

23 Feb 2016