Top news of the week: 18.08.2021.
Climate
Climate change worsens extreme weather. A revolution in attribution science proved it.
From heat waves to deadly floods, scientists can now calculate how much humans have made disasters worse.
New UN report could be a game-changer for climate lawsuits
"The IPCC report should be a sort of rallying call to lawyers."
The IPCC report is a grim reminder that the US will not be spared the extreme effects of climate change
This week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the first part of its 6th assessment report on climate change, confirming that global temperatures have risen due to ...
Breaching tipping points would increase economic costs of climate change impacts
Exceeding tipping points in the climate system could lead to a measurable increase in the economic impacts of climate change,...
Budget Reconciliation Is the Key to Stopping Climate Change
Congress is on the verge of major legislation that would be strong enough to confront the climate crisis.
New Research Explores the Costs of Climate Tipping Points, and How They Could Compound One Another
Calculating the future cost of global warming is one of society’s most urgent challenges. And that math will depend on the speed of major shifts in Earth’s climate system, like the complete ...
A new way to measure how Arctic plant communities respond to climate change
Regional gross primary production by photosynthesis for the North American Arctic and boreal region, based on top-down atmospheric COS inversions. Credit: NOAA Global Monitoring …
As Disasters Mount, Central Banks Gird Against Threat of Climate Change
From the Bank of England to the People’s Bank of China, monetary authorities of the world’s largest economies are gauging how climate change could rock the financial system. Though long ...