CLIMATE SCIENCE - INDO DAILY

ADB warns climate change 'disastrous' for Asia

Jul 14, 2017 (AFP)

A continued reliance on fossil fuels will see the world's most populous region face prolonged heat waves, rising sea levels, and changing rainfall patterns that...

Scientists upgrade database tracking global temperatures across millennia

Jul 12, 2017 (SPX)

Julien Emile-Geay, an associate professor for the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, said he and other climate scientists with the internationa...

Bloomberg outlines plan to quantify US climate efforts

Jul 12, 2017 (AFP)

Bloomberg, the world's tenth richest person, leads more than 1,000 companies, organizations, state and local authorities who pledged to honor the Paris climate ...

G20: Compromise on climate change, but at what cost?

Jul 09, 2017 (AFP)

After the US president decided last month to pull out of the hard-fought deal to combat global warming, climate change was always going to be centre-stage at th...

Erdogan threatens not to ratify Paris climate accord

Jul 08, 2017 (AFP)

"After that step taken by America, the position that we adopt is in the direction of not passing it in parliament," Erdogan said at a press conference in Hambur...

G20 draft statement shows 19-against-US split on climate

Jul 07, 2017 (AFP)

The draft underlines that the 2015 Paris climate accord is "irreversible" and affirms that other G20 nations are committed to the deal while taking note of Wash...

Two significant warming intervals in southern China since 1850

Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)

Scientists from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, reconstructed the annual temperature anomaly i...

US isolated over climate: G20 host Merkel

Jul 06, 2017 (AFP)

Trump may have vowed to pull the US out of the 2015 climate protection deal, but "many many other countries want to go on implementing" it, Merkel told journali...

Climate: Can G19 hold firm against Trump's G1?

Jul 05, 2017 (AFP)

This is the question for observers as the G20 group of major economies gathers in Hamburg amid a storm of geopolitical crises threatening to push climate change...

Climate change could make Sahel wet: study

Jul 05, 2017 (AFP)

While there would be more water for farming and grazing, the region may also face devastating storms and floods for which it is completely unprepared. "The shee...

Turning the climate tide by 2020

Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)

This call for strong short-term measures complements the longer-term 'carbon law' approach introduced earlier this year by some of the current co-authors, inclu...

Concurrent hot and dry summers more common in future

Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)

According to the statistics, however, such extreme climate events, similar to the heatwave that affected large areas of western and central Europe in the summer...

US pullout gives 'global push' to climate deal: UN chief

Jul 03, 2017 (AFP)

President Donald Trump, whose country is the world's second biggest producer of greenhouse gases after China, drew widespread criticism when he announced on Jun...

Half-a-degree of warming boosted extreme weather

Jun 30, 2017 (AFP)

Comparing two 20-year periods -- 1960-79 and 1991-2010 -- between which average global temperatures jumped 0.5 C (0.9 F), scientists found that several kinds of...

EU 'more determined' than ever to fight climate change: Merkel

Jun 29, 2017 (AFP)

Speaking to the German parliament a week before hosting a G20 summit, Merkel called global warming an "existential challenge" for humanity and stressed that the...

Trump 'proud' of leaving Paris climate deal

Jun 29, 2017 (AFP)

"In order to protect American jobs, companies and workers, we've withdrawn the United States from the one-sided Paris Climate Accord," Trump said to applause, d...

Global companies pledge transparency on climate risk

Jun 29, 2017 (AFP)

Spearheaded by former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, recommendations by the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures should help shareholders dete...

EU girds for stormy G20, climate battle with Trump

Jun 29, 2017 (AFP)

Leaders of Germany, France, Italy and other EU economies acknowledged their long standing ties with Washington but said they would not give in on "existential" ...

US mayors bypass Trump to back Paris climate goals

Jun 27, 2017 (AFP)

Mayor Kasim Reed said he was sending a signal of "optimism, passion and action" on fighting climate change to mayors worldwide despite the pullout Trump announc...

How the climate can rapidly change at tipping points

Jun 26, 2017 (SPX)

Their study is the first to confirm that there have been situations in our planet's history in which gradually rising CO2 concentrations have set off abrupt cha...