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Complex Climate Models Overestimate Global Warming

Research published this week in Earth System Dynamics reports that the most sensitive climate models overestimate global warming during the last 50 years.

19 Aug 2020

Barriers that Could Limit Climate Mitigation Potential of Reforestation

Reforestation is a promising nature-based climate solution. However, there are practical considerations beyond the suitability of land for planting trees, such as financial, land-use and operational constraints, which can limit its outcomes and thus need to be taken into account.

19 Aug 2020

Exploring the Impact of Climate Change on Solar and Wind Energy Production

As the climate of the planet is changing, as evidenced by record-setting hot summers and extreme weather events, many researchers are looking to more renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind farms.

19 Aug 2020

Intraspecific Cooperation and Competition Shape Organism's Vulnerability to Climate Change

Organisms need to work together to adapt to climate change, especially in the presence of competitors, suggests a new study published today in eLife.

19 Aug 2020

Concordia Student Maps the Effects of Climate Change on Primate Habitats

Stewart began looking at the effects of climate change on primate habitats with spatial data from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5, which estimates regional and seasonal temperature change per unit of CO2 emission, and range data of 426 separate primate species and subspecies, courtesy of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

19 Aug 2020

Radiant Cooling Technology Could Mitigate Climate Change and COVID-19

When most people think of cooling, they automatically imagine air conditioning, or cooling the air in a room.

19 Aug 2020

Ocean Microbes Could Interact with Pollutants to Alter Weather Patterns

Oceans cover almost three-quarters of the globe, yet little is known about how gases and aerosols made by ocean microbes affect weather and climate, or how human-produced pollution could influence this process.

18 Aug 2020

Novel Approach for Pricing Carbon Could Help Meet Net-Zero Emissions Goals

An article released today by researchers at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy in the journal Nature Climate Change introduces a new approach for pricing carbon -- Near-term to Net Zero.

18 Aug 2020

Study Estimates the Impact of Climate Change on World's Oceans

More than 50% of the world's oceans could already be affected by climate change, with this figure rising as high as 80% over the coming decades, a new study has shown.

18 Aug 2020