Climate news

Revised 23 July, 2026 This is the story of how one of the most influential climate papers, the so-called “Wedges paper” 1 came into existence, thanks to the support of a company that is one of the main causes of the climate crisis and has a significant financial interest in the outcome of the technologies … Read more

Explosive growth in clean technologies has pushed an old coal-heavy scenario out of the realm of plausibility, according to a recent study. But there’s more work to be done. this article has been republished under a Creative Commons license from Yale Climate Connections. Thanks to the transition from fossil fuels to clean technologies, what used … Read more

Visualisations based on NASA’s atmospheric models of greenhouse gas emissions and distribution clearly show that the climate crisis is a climate justice issue. CO₂ is primarily emitted by wealthy countries in the Northern Hemisphere and then spreads to the rest of the globe. It is countries that contribute least to rising CO₂ levels that suffer … Read more

Are experiments in the stratosphere really set to begin in April!? Newspapers and radio reports are informing us of plans to begin ‘solar radiation management’. This is a method whereby particles are released into the atmosphere to reflect the sun’s rays. According to scientists, there are many serious caveats attached to this. Nevertheless, an Israeli-American, … Read more

Moderate global warming creates a risk of climate impacts that are more severe than the most-likely impacts of high global warming. Summary of a News & Views article in Nature (25 March 2026) by Rachel Warren, 1 discussing a paper by Bevacqua et al. in the same issue. 2 The Paris Agreement targets a rise of less … Read more

A new study shows with 98% certainty that the rate of global warming is increasing. The 1.5 °C warming threshold could be reached in the coming years, in violation of the Paris Agreement. To prevent global warming of 3 °C, the use of fossil fuels must be phased out immediately. The research by Grant Foster … Read more

At the end of February, Milieudefensie published the latest Climate Crisis Index, on the first working day of the government of ‘Climate Pusher’ Jetten. It shows that many companies in the Netherlands are not taking measures to combat climate change. Of the 28 companies surveyed, not one has a good, or even reasonable, climate plan. … Read more

At the end of January, De Staat van ons Klimaat (The State of Our Climate), the KNMI’s annual report on the year 2025, was published. The report confirms the continuing trend of warming that began during the Industrial Revolution in the early 19th century. The consequences are serious: extreme weather, drought and flooding, and increased … Read more

Climate sceptics, led by President Trump, were quick to jump on the bandwagon when extreme cold weather hit the US at the end of January 2026. Trump posted on his ‘Truth Social’ account: “Rarely seen anything like it before. Could the Environmental Insurrectionists please explain – WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING???” He was promptly served … Read more

This is republished from the site Covering Climate Now. “Suffering increases with each tenth of a degree of warming.” So says renowned climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe, speaking yesterday in an expert panel that CCNow and Sammy Roth of the new newsletter Climate-Colored Goggles convened in response to a widely circulated and much-discussed memo by Bill Gates, in which the … Read more