UN conference hears litany of water disasters linked to climate crisis
Water is at the heart of the climate crisis, with an increasingly dire carousel of droughts, floods and sea level rise felt “making our planet uninhabitable”, the secretary general of the United Nations, António Guterres, has warned. On the second…
Ganga, Brahmaputra Flows To Reduce Due To Global Warming: UN Chief – NDTV
Guterres voiced concern that human activity is driving the temperature to dangerous new levels (File) United Nations: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned that major Himalayan rivers like the Indus, the Ganges and Brahmaputra, all hugely important for India, could…
Warming Across Generations – Climate Central
KEY CONCEPTS March 23 is World Meteorological Day, marking the date in 1950 when the World Meteorological Organization was established. New Climate Central analysis explores the theme of this year’s World Meteorological Day, The Future of Weather, Climate and Water…
More than 100 killed as Storm Freddy returns to Mozambique and Malawi
Mozambique and Malawi have been left counting the cost of Tropical Storm Freddy, which killed more than 100 people, injured scores and left a trail of destruction as it ripped through southern Africa for the second time in a month…
Climate action: Meet to approve IPCC Synthesis Report begins in Switzerland
Synthesis Report last of the Sixth Assessment reports; first IPCC assessment since Paris Agreement
Cyclone Freddy which travelled across Indian Ocean, survived for 32 days courtesy climate change
Horizontal wind shear are the horizontal winds around a cyclone. When these winds have lower speeds they help a cyclone grow in strength and when they have higher speeds they make it dissipate
Sea ice on both poles at record low, finds WMO report
Antarctic sea ice cover at record low for 2nd consecutive year; Arctic sea ice extent is also at an all-time minimum
Long live Freddy: Cyclone which travelled across Indian Ocean, has survived for 32 days courtesy climate change
Warming due to human-induced greenhouse gases is absorbed by the oceans, increasing their heat content; this helps strengthen cyclones
La Niña Has Ended, and El Niño May Be on the Way
The climate pattern that tends to bring drier, warmer conditions to the southern half of the United States and wetter weather to the northern half has ended, NOAA said Thursday. La Niña, the climate pattern that helped fuel the extremely…
Despite News Reports, Climate Change Not Behind Weird Winter Weather
An article in Slate suggests that the fact that some locations have experienced winter weather events this year that are unusual for them, is evidence climate change is causing weird weather. This is false. Every year different places around the…
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