#5°c

The Pandemic Showed We Totally CAN Limit Global Warming. Here’s How

With researchers warning that limiting global warming to 1.5 °C is fast slipping from our grasp, we know it will take a mammoth effort to reach. But the scale of emissions reductions required is actually something we have already achieved before – quite recently and rather by accident.   In 2020, global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 6.3 percent or some 2,200 metric tons (MtCO2), a new…

While We Celebrated The Moon Landing, We Hit a More Critical Science Anniversary

This month the world has been celebrating the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong setting foot on the Moon. But this week sees another scientific anniversary, perhaps just as important for the future of civilisation.  

Forty years ago, a group of climate scientists sat down at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts for the first meeting of the “Ad Hoc Group on Carbon Dioxide and…