Comment, news and reviews on the climate crisis
Climate Commentary is a collection of links, articles, news and opinions concerned with climate change, global warming and the climate crisis. It is a digital “commonplace book”: a collection of items found elsewhere in the media.
Recent articles:
- Three reasons why climate change models are our best hope for understanding the future
- Coffee may become more scarce and expensive thanks to climate change – new research
- Methane in the atmosphere is at an all-time high – here’s what it means for climate change
- Radical overhaul of construction industry needed if UK to have any chance of net zero by 2050 – new research
- Four surprising ways climate change is affecting people’s health in England and Wales
- Ireland has the wind and seas to become an offshore superpower
- Ocean heat is at record levels, with major consequences
- Technology has made buildings less climate-friendly: but we can look back in time for solutions
- Unusually calm and cloudy weather led to resurgence in fossil fuel use in 2021
- Deforestation is causing more storms in west Africa, finds 30-year satellite study
- Energy prices are unlikely to fall in 2022 or beyond – not until major importers get serious about green transition
- Africa faces an uphill battle against western emissions to combat climate change
- Don’t Look Up shows bashing people over the head with facts does not work
- UK net zero strategies are overlooking something vital: how to cool buildings amid rising temperatures
- Antarctica’s ‘doomsday’ glacier: how its collapse could trigger global floods and swallow islands
- COP26 agreed rules on trading carbon emissions – but they’re fatally flawed
- How climate change and extreme weather may lead to food shortages and escalating prices
- Here’s what it would take to end emissions from fossil fuels
- Carbon capture and storage: where should the world store CO₂? It’s a moral dilemma
- Floods are going to get worse: we need to start preparing for them now
- Government must back UK train travel or risk long-term retreat to cars
- Why increased rainfall in the Arctic is bad news for the whole world
- Electric cars aren’t enough to hit climate targets: we need to develop better public transport too
- Canada’s flood havoc after summer heatwave shows how climate disasters combine to do extra damage
- Coal: why China and India aren’t the climate villains of COP26
- Electric cars could one day power your house – here’s how to make it happen
- COP26 deal: how rich countries failed to meet their obligations to the rest of the world
- Embodied carbon: why truly net zero buildings could still be decades away
- COP26: what the draft agreement says – and why it’s being criticised
- Claims of COP26’s success have been unpicked – but political journalists have repeated the spin
- COP26: how the world’s militaries hide their huge carbon emissions
- COP26: meat eating is a big climate issue – but isn’t getting the attention it deserves
- If we don’t learn from past climate disasters, they will claim more lives in the future
- Shipping emissions must fall by a third by 2030 and reach zero before 2050 – new research
- Global emissions almost back to pre-pandemic levels after unprecedented drop in 2020, new analysis shows
- Why climate change poses a threat to central banks
- COP26: what would the world be like at 3°C of warming and how would it be different from 1.5°C?
- Why tackling deforestation is so important for slowing climate change
- COP26: here’s how much progress the UK has made on three key net zero pledges
- We mapped every large solar plant on the planet using satellites and machine learning
- Young climate activists have far more power than they realise
- Climate change: how economists underestimated benefits of action for decades
- Electric boilers: a green alternative to heat pumps that no one is talking about
- Cities and climate change: why low-rise buildings are the future – not skyscrapers
- How to know if a country is serious about net zero: look at its plans for extracting fossil fuels
- What Europe’s exceptionally low winds mean for the future energy grid
- The term ‘Anthropocene’ isn’t perfect – but it shows us the scale of the environmental crisis we’ve caused
- Three charts that show what’s wrong with the UK’s net zero plans
- In the face of chaos, why are we so nonchalant about climate change?
- Most businesses have already been hit by extreme weather, but still aren’t preparing for future climate disruption
- Seven ways to save lives on the frontline of the climate crisis
- Overseas trade has a hidden environmental ‘disaster footprint’ – new report
- Solar panels on half the world’s roofs could meet its entire electricity demand – new research
- Meat eating drops by 17% over a decade in the UK – new research
- The most influential climate science paper of all time
- How nuclear energy can help make all UK electricity green by 2035
- Nobel prize: why climate modellers deserved the physics award – they’ve been proved right again and again
- Heat pumps: UK to install 600,000 a year by 2028 but electrical grid will need massive investment to cope
- Why global food prices are higher today than for most of modern history
- Not convinced on the need for urgent climate action?
- How soon could carbon capture technology solve industry CO₂ shortages?
- How fish can still be part of a more sustainable food future
- Air pollution: most national limits are unsafe for human health – new WHO guidelines
- Ten ways to cut shipping’s contribution to climate change – from a researcher
- A 20-foot sea wall won’t save Miami – how living structures can help protect the coast and keep the paradise vibe
- Coastal flooding could save atoll islands from rising seas – but only if their reefs remain healthy
- Five numbers that lay bare the mammoth effort needed to insulate Britain’s homes
- The carbon footprint of a full English breakfast – and how to reduce it
- Nobel prize-winning economics of climate change is misleading and dangerous – here’s why
- What ancient Chinese roofs can tell us about climate change
- Climate change: ditch 90% of world’s coal and 60% of oil and gas to limit warming to 1.5°C – experts
- Reusable containers aren’t always better for the environment than disposable ones – new research
- African tropical mountain forests store far more carbon than previously thought – new research
- A sense of climate crisis now haunts stories which aren’t even about the environment
- Hydrogen: UK government sees future in low-carbon fuel – but what’s the reality?
- How students can use storytelling to bring the dangers of climate change to life
- We could power households from the scraps in our food waste bins – here’s what is stopping us
- Amazon: regrowing forests have offset less than 10% of carbon emissions from deforestation
- Why eye-catching graphics are vital for getting to grips with climate change
- Climate Repair: three things we must do now to stabilise the planet
- Apocalyptic films have lulled us into a false sense of security about climate change
- This is the most sobering report card yet on climate change and Earth’s future. Here’s what you need to know
- IPCC says Earth will reach temperature rise of about 1.5℃ in around a decade. But limiting any global warming is what matters most
- IPCC report: global emissions must peak by 2025 to keep warming at 1.5°C – we need deeds not words
- IPCC report: how to make global emissions peak and fall – and what’s stopping us
- Record-breaking winter winds have blown old Arctic sea ice into the melt zone
- Brazil’s Atlantic Forest will change more in the next 50 years than at any time since the last ice age
- Extreme heat waves in a warming world don’t just break records – they shatter them
- How summer 2021 has changed our understanding of extreme weather
- Monks Wood Wilderness: 60 years ago, scientists let a farm field rewild – here’s what happened
- Most buildings were designed for an earlier climate – here’s what will happen as global warming accelerates
- Climate scientists: concept of net zero is a dangerous trap
- Why imported veg is still more sustainable than local meat
- Climate change: how bad could the future be if we do nothing?
- There aren’t enough trees in the world to offset society’s carbon emissions – and there never will be
- Floating solar farms could cool down lakes threatened by climate change
- Antarctica’s ice shelves are trembling as global temperatures rise – what happens next is up to us
- How climate change is reducing numbers of humpback whale calves in the north-west Atlantic
- Climate change: what would 4°C of global warming feel like?
- You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food – focus on what you eat not whether your food is local
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