Dive into the science.
Despite setbacks from COVID-19, preliminary data is showing global greenhouse gas emissions increased in 2020.
Check out the report from the World Meteorological Organization here.
Paris Agreement.
Its central aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Link to UNFCC website...
Heating up.
This graph illustrates the change in global surface temperature relative to 1951-1980 average temperatures. 19 of the 20 warmest years all have occurred since 2001, with the exception of 1998. The year 2016 ranks as the warmest on record.
Source: NASA/GISS.
Climate basics.
In six minutes of your lifetime you will learn about the 24 steps of climate change….Youtube-Video
Ride the climate time machine.
See how some of the earth’s key climate indicators are changing over centuries:
Crash course on climate change.
Alastair Skelton, Professor of Geochemistry and Petrology and Co-Director of the Bolin Centre for Climate Research, is giving a crash course on Climate Change here.