Submitted on January 17, 2013
Temperatures hit an unseasonably warm 61˚F in Washington D.C. earlier this week. The Middle East is blanketed in record rainfall and rare heavy snowfall, ending a nearly decade-long drought....
Submitted on January 15, 2013
The draft U.S. National Climate Assessment was released last week, confirming that the climate is changing, that it is primarily due to human activities, and that the United States is already being...
Submitted on September 6, 2012
Over the past several months, extreme weather and climate events in the form of heat waves, droughts, fires, and flooding have seemed to become the norm rather than the exception. In the past half-...
Submitted on July 24, 2012
This post is part of WRI’s “Extreme Weather Watch” series, which explores the link between climate change and extreme events. Read our other posts in this series.
Heat and drought...
Submitted on July 16, 2012
This post is part of WRI’s “Extreme Weather Watch” series, which explores the link between climate change and extreme events. Read our other posts in this series.
Many people are...
Submitted on July 6, 2012
This post is part of WRI’s “Extreme Weather Watch” series, which explores the link between climate change and extreme events. Read our other posts in this series.
While many...
Submitted on June 14, 2012
We are happy to announce the results of the project that we launched in May to assess how recent climate science discoveries can be most effectively communicated via video. In just one month, we...
Submitted on June 5, 2012
Last week we passed an unfortunate marker when it comes to climate change: concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere have hit 400 parts per million (ppm) near the Arctic.
What Does...
Submitted on June 1, 2012
In early May, we invited participants to vote for their favorite video method for communicating recent climate science findings. The survey is now complete. More than 1,500 votes were cast, and we...
Submitted on May 1, 2012
Many people have wrestled with how best to convey the latest scientific research on climate change. Here’s your chance to help us figure out the answer.
Last summer I was selected as a Google...
Submitted on April 2, 2012
In recent years, several developing countries, with support from donor agencies, have begun to seriously consider Low Emissions Development Strategies (LEDS), country-driven plans that enable the...
Submitted on February 13, 2012
The Durban climate deal reached in December 2011 marked an important milestone in the design of a system to measure, report, and verify (MRV) countries’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and their...
Submitted on February 13, 2012
The UNFCCC’s ultimate goal is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a “level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.” Thus, the...
Submitted on February 8, 2012
Punxsutawney Phil may have forecast six more weeks of winter, but for much of the country winter has not yet arrived. Once again, weird weather is dominating the headlines. Temperatures have recently...
Submitted on November 18, 2011
The world must brace for more extreme weather. That is the clear message from a new report that finds climate change is likely to bring more record-breaking temperatures, heat waves, and heavy...
Submitted on November 4, 2011
East Coast snowstorms in October. The suburbs of Bangkok under water. Extreme droughts in the Horn of Africa.
Such “freak” weather events have dominated headlines for over a year, and...
Submitted on November 2, 2011
This piece originally appeared on the Bangkok Post website.
A third of Thailand is under water. Epic floods have taken people’s lives, destroyed businesses and crops, and are now sweeping into...
Submitted on October 24, 2011
Climate skeptics have denounced studies of temperature rise because of alleged biases in data sets. So in an effort to get to the bottom of these critiques, a group of scientists launched the...
Submitted on October 19, 2011
This post originally appeared in the National Journal Energy & Environment Expert Blog. The question was, “The summer of 2011 marked the second-lowest ice coverage on record for the Arctic...
Submitted on October 12, 2011
Today, WRI releases Climate Science 2009-2010, the latest installment in our periodic review of the state of play of the science of climate change. Co-authors Kelly Levin and Dennis Tirpak describe...
Submitted on September 15, 2011
This post was written with James Anderson, Communications Coordinator at the World Resources Institute.
“This is unprecedented fire behavior. We’ve never seen conditions like this before. Not a...
