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Trillion-tonne budget means carbon capture is not optional
CCS needs a shot in the arm now the vaunted project at Mongstad was cancelled.Øyvind Hagen/StatoilAgreeing on their fifth assessment report two weeks ago, the 195 member governments of the...
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Massive citizen-powered climate simulation links winter floods to global warming
Going under?Bob Embleton, CC BY-SABritain’s warm, wet winter brought floods and misery to many living across southern England, with large parts of Somerset lying underwater for months. When in January...
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UN climate talks increasingly favour people alive today over future generations
If you ask the climate negotiators gathering in Bonn this week for their last get-together before the Paris conference in December who they are doing all this for, the reply would probably mention...
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Paris emissions cuts aren’t enough – we’ll have to put carbon back in the ground
I wonder how many of the delegates in Paris realise that they have just created the mother of all “take-back schemes”. As a consumer, you may have already come across this sort of deal: if you don’t...
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Don’t fall into the trap of restarting last decade’s ‘climate wars’
In the run-up to Donald Trump’s inauguration, many climate experts are expressing concern that his views and those of his senior appointees are at odds with mainstream climate science. They’re grimly...
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Why methane should be treated differently compared to long-lived greenhouse...
Livestock is a significant source of methane, a potent but short-lived greenhouse gas.from www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-SANew research provides a way out of a longstanding quandary in climate policy:...
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The Climate Clock: Counting down to 1.5°C
An NGO representative stands in front of a replica of the Eiffel Tower at the Paris climate change conference in December 2015.(Michel Euler/AP Photo)The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
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Why protesters should be wary of ‘12 years to climate breakdown’ rhetoric
I was invited to speak to a group of teenagers on climate strike in Oxford recently. Like many scientists, I support the strikes, but also find them disturbing. Which I’m sure is the idea. Today’s...
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Cumbria coal mine could usher in a net-zero-compliant fossil fuel industry –...
West Cumbria suffered a “once-in-a-thousand-year” flood in 2009. And then again in 2015. And 2019. No, it’s not that meteorologists can’t count. Climate change is increasing the risk of precisely the...
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Climate change: what G7 leaders could have said – but didn’t
The four-day G7 summit in Cornwall ended with little cause for celebration from anyone worried about climate change. Most of the pledges that emerged were relatively old news, with the UK repeating its...
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How world leaders hope to reach net zero emissions by 2050 – and why some...
In part two of Climate Fight: the world’s biggest negotiation, a series from The Anthill podcast on the UN climate summit in Glasgow, we’re talking to experts about the grand goal of the negotiations:...
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The path to net zero. Climate Fight podcast part 2 transcript
What needs to happen to get the world to net zero?Coatesy/ShutterstockThis is a transcript of part two of Climate Fight: the world’s biggest negotiation, a series from The Anthill podcast. In this...
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COP26: a letter to school strikers from ‘the physicist behind net zero’
1000 Words / shutterstockDear school striker,Well done on all you are doing – you seem to have made more impact on the climate issue in the past couple of years than I’ve managed in the previous three...
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The world has made more progress on climate change than you might think – or...
It must be painful for Boris Johnson to be a footnote, especially a footnote in French, but at the end of a very long two weeks, there were always only two outcomes possible at the UN climate summit in...
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What the invasion of Ukraine means for the IPCC’s latest climate change report
The UN’s new IPCC report on the mitigation of climate change says that immediate and deep emissions reductions are needed to limit global warming, along with removing carbon dioxide back out of the air...
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Could Liz Truss allow new drilling for oil and gas and still strengthen the...
Donvictorio/ShutterstockThe UK’s new prime minister, Liz Truss, has pledged to suspend green levies on energy bills and look for “better ways to deliver our net zero targets”. Despite a record-breaking...
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