‘Nobody on planet untouched by impacts of climate change’
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report is out and it warns of direct risks to humanity from flood, famine and conflict.
With other academics hotly challenging his input into the ongoing debate about the likely effects of climate change, Professor Richard Tol tells Channel 4 News: “I’m an independent counsel”.
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report is out and it warns of direct risks to humanity from flood, famine and conflict.
Much of the world remains unprepared for the mounting threats of the changing climate, a major international report warns.
Baroness Worthington, Labour’s Climate Change spokeswoman in the House of Lords and Dr Bjorn Lomborg – the author of the Skeptical Environmentalist discuss todays climate change news.
Ahead of publication of the latest IPCC report, there’s no real argument about the major climate change threat to the UK. Water is set to become this country’s biggest problem.
Jon Snow is in Greenland looking at climate change with the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, who believes that this is the greatest threat to mankind’s capacity to live together in harmony.
Next Monday sees the publication of one of the strongest climate change reports the United Nations has ever commissioned. It looks set to be a terrifying document.
If true, Monday’s result from a radio telescope in the Antarctic is one of the greatest breakthroughs in the history of science – but for the time being it remains a pretty big if.
It is midnight and I am standing in a barn, deep in the west Berkshire countryside, searching for barn owls – the beautiful British birds threatened by rat poison and climate change.
Scientist James Lovelock, who created the Gaia theory, says we should stop arguing about the causes of climate change and spend money adapting to a changing world.
Our Science editor Tom Clarke takes a look at the links between global warming and our current battering by extreme weather.
If the latest bout of turbulent weather provides further evidence of climate change, then we need a joined-up strategy to deal with it. But first, we need to agree on the nature of the threat.
It is quite natural, right and proper that in the immediacy of what is happening in the UK, from politicians down, it is helping people out with flooded homes that comes top priority.
Hydrology expert Andrew McKenzie braves the floods (without waders) to tell Channel 4 News that the floods are “quite probably” caused by climate change.
The government says that despite the cuts, it is still spending more on flood defences than Labour. But this claim is far from watertight, as FactCheck finds out.