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NPL Centre for Carbon Measurement Launches New Online CO2 Meter

The Centre for Carbon Measurement at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is a partner of Climate-KIC, which has just launched a new online CO2 meter to highlight current CO2 levels in the atmosphere and emphasise the urgent need to reduce harmful emissions.

9 Oct 2014

Long-Term Ocean Warming in Southern Hemisphere Underestimated

Using satellite observations and a large suite of climate models, Lawrence Livermore scientists have found that long-term ocean warming in the upper 700 meters of Southern Hemisphere oceans has likely been underestimated.

7 Oct 2014

New Model More Accurately Describes Greenhouse Gases Released from Arctic Peatlands

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have created a new model to more accurately describe the greenhouse gases likely to be released from Arctic peatlands as they warm. Their findings, based on modeling how oxygen filters through soil, suggest that previous models probably underestimated methane emissions and overrepresented carbon dioxide emissions from these regions.

6 Oct 2014

Australia Experiences Hottest Year Due to Human-Caused Global Warming

Australia's hottest year on record in 2013 along with the accompanying droughts, heat waves and record-breaking seasons of that year was virtually impossible without the influence of human-caused global warming.

30 Sep 2014

Change in the Nordic Seas at Receiving End of Global Climate System Change

The melting Arctic is not the source for less saline Nordic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream that has provided less salt.

29 Sep 2014

Abundant Natural Gas May Not Help Lower Greenhouse Gas Emissions Significantly

Abundant supplies of natural gas will do little to reduce harmful U.S. emissions causing climate change, according to researchers at UC Irvine, Stanford University, and the nonprofit organization Near Zero. They found that inexpensive gas boosts electricity consumption and hinders expansion of cleaner energy sources, such as wind and solar.

26 Sep 2014

Megacities Carbon Project Targets Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Driving down busy Interstate 5 in Los Angeles in a nondescript blue Toyota Prius, Riley Duren of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, is a man on a mission as he surveys the vast urban jungle sprawled around him.

24 Sep 2014

Tropical Rabbitfish Pose a Major Threat to the Mediterranean Ecosystem

The tropical rabbitfish which have devastated algal forests in the eastern Mediterranean Sea pose a major threat to the entire Mediterranean basin if their distribution continues to expand as the climate warms, a new study warns.

22 Sep 2014

NASA Conducting Airborne Campaigns to Study Impact of Rising Temperatures on the Arctic

Over the past few decades, average global temperatures have been on the rise, and this warming is happening two to three times faster in the Arctic. As the region’s summer comes to a close, NASA is hard at work studying how rising temperatures are affecting the Arctic.

17 Sep 2014