- The cost of global climate change: What happens to the economy when temperatures rise around the world? http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/business-tech/110801/7-deadly-stories-the-cost-climate-change-global-economy 3 comments worldnews
- Study predicts that aridification would emerge over about 20% to 30% of the world’s land surface by the time the global mean temperature change reaches 2ºC https://www.uea.ac.uk/about/-/study-predicts-a-significantly-drier-world-at-2-c 4 comments science
- Economic damage from climate change six times worse than thought. 1C increase in global temperature leads to a 12% decline in world GDP. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/17/economic-damage-climate-change-report 175 comments economics
- The World May Have Less Time to Address Climate Change Than Scientists Thought: A new global temperature baseline casts doubt on humanity's ability to meet the Paris target https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-world-may-have-less-time-to-address-climate-change-than-scientists-thought/ 26 comments science
- Declining trees spell gloom for planet. "Less rainfall and rising global temperatures are damaging one of the world's best guardians against climate change: trees. A global study, published in the journal Science, shows that..." http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/declining-trees-spell-gloom-for-planet-20100824-13qfn.html 10 comments science
- World is finally waking up to climate change, says 'hothouse Earth' author - Report predicting spiralling global temperatures has been downloaded 270,000 times in just a few days https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/17/world-waking-up-to-reality-climate-change-hothouse-earth-author 194 comments worldnews
- The world is likely to see more extreme temperatures in the coming four years as natural warming reinforces manmade climate change, according to a new global forecasting system. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/aug/14/extreme-temperatures-especially-likely-for-next-four-years 19 comments science
- Wheat, one of the world’s most important crops, is being threatened by climate change - all the techniques suggested that a global temperature increase of 1 degree Celsius would lead to a worldwide decline in wheat yield by between 4.1 and 6.4 percent. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/09/12/climate-change-is-really-bad-for-wheat-which-is-really-bad-for-us/?utm_campaign=2fff895223-cb_daily&utm_medium=email&utm_source=daily%20carbon%20briefing&utm_term=.f52b0cface40 65 comments science
- Rising global temperatures could increase the amount of carbon dioxide naturally released by the world's oceans, fuelling further climate change, a study published in Nature Geoscience suggests. http://phys.org/news/2014-06-climates-greenhouse-gas-oceans.html 66 comments science
- Economic damage from climate change six times worse than thought – A 1C increase in global temperature leads to a 12% decline in world gross domestic product, researchers have found https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/17/economic-damage-climate-change-report 15 comments environment
- Economic damage from climate change six times worse than thought – A 1C increase in global temperature leads to a 12% decline in world gross domestic product, researchers have found https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/17/economic-damage-climate-change-report 3 comments economy
- Antarctica’s ‘staggering’ exposure to climate change exacerbates global threat | Study warns of need to protect region as rising temperatures create a ‘new world’ with far less ice https://www.ft.com/content/5e76a2ec-f610-4772-9df9-c68530c1429e 5 comments climate
- World 'not on track' to meet Paris climate accord objectives | Guterres said countries were not living up to their commitments, under the 2016 Paris climate agreement, to keep the global temperature rise to below 2 degrees C above pre-industrial. "Climate change is running faster than what we are." https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/un-global-warming-climate-change-1.5132888 5 comments worldnews
- Climate change impacts 'accelerating' | The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says that the physical and financial impacts of global warming are accelerating. Record greenhouse gas levels are driving temperatures to "increasingly dangerous levels" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47723577 14 comments worldnews
- A team of top scientists is telling world leaders to stop congratulating themselves on the Paris agreement to fight climate change because if more isn't done, global temperatures will likely hit dangerous warming levels in about 35 years. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/u/us_sci_dangerous_warming?site=ap&section=home&template=default 260 comments worldnews
- Beyond ‘dangerous’ climate change: emission scenarios for a new world. "... there is now little to no chance of maintaining the global mean surface temperature at or below 2°C. ... [this now] represents the threshold between ‘dangerous’ and ‘extremely dangerous’ climate change." http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/369/1934/20.full?sid=f3a3c193-70ac-4df7-8c86-f1069bac4aca 59 comments science
- Grain harvest at risk as drought likely in Central and Eastern Europe. Climate change is causing Europe to warm faster than anywhere else in the world. Temperatures in Europe have increased at more than twice the global average over the past 30 years. https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/grain-harvest-risk-drought-likely-central-and-eastern-europe-warn-researchers 3 comments environment
- World's largest study of global climate related mortality links 5 million deaths a year to abnormal temperatures. Deaths related to hot temperatures increased in all regions from 2000 to 2019, indicating that global warming due to climate change will make this mortality figure worse in the future. https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/worlds-largest-study-of-global-climate-related-mortality-links-5-million-deaths-a-year-to-abnormal-temperatures 3 comments science
- Climate change could wipe out half of the world's sandy shorelines by the year 2100 | Researchers found that the severity of damage to the world’s sandy beaches was dependent on how much the global temperatures could rise, making the rate of greenhouse gas emissions a major factor https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/disappearing-beaches-climate-change-could-wipe-out-half-world-s-n1150841 13 comments worldnews
- A billion people may be newly exposed to diseases like dengue fever as world temperature rises by the end of the century because of global warming, says a new study that examines temperature changes on a monthly basis across the world. https://gumc.georgetown.edu/news-release/a-billion-people-will-be-newly-exposed-to-diseases-like-dengue-fever-as-world-temperatures-rise/ 957 comments science
- Climate change threatens half of wildlife in biodiversity hotspots, study says: A new study by WWF predicts drastic consequences for animal species around the world if temperatures keep rising — even if pledged limits to global warming are met. http://www.dw.com/en/climate-change-threatens-half-of-wildlife-in-biodiversity-hotspots-study-says/a-42973405 3 comments worldnews
- Investors are getting closer to a climate tipping point | Estimated $23 trillion in losses will be caused by climate change over the next 80 years, with a 4°C rise in global temperatures - But only 1 in 10 of the world’s biggest greenhouse gas–emitting corporations have emissions targets in place https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/04/investors-are-getting-closer-to-a-climate-change-tipping-point.html 3 comments worldnews
- Global temperatures have continued to rise in the past 10 months, with 2018 expected to be the fourth warmest year on record. World running out of time to combat climate change, warns meteorological organisation. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/29/four-years-hottest-record-climate-change 24 comments worldnews
- Act now on wildfires, global climate change, human health. Climate change is fueling the three essential conditions for wildfires - fuel, oxygen and an ignition source. The world is seeing inconsistent rainfall, increased drought and hotter temperatures https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/act-now-on-wildfires,-global-climate-change,-human-health,-study-says 5 comments science
- Temperatures across northeastern U.S. will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2-degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a whole. https://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/northeast-us-temperatures-are-decades 2 comments science
- Climate ‘apocalypse’ fears stopping people having children. In the first study of its kind, people cite their reasons, in a world that has changed over recent decades due to global temperatures increasing and the ice caps melting, as an extreme concern for the well-being of any future kids https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/27/climate-apocalypse-fears-stopping-people-having-children-study 62 comments science
- Cost of climate change rising even faster | The cost of keeping a global temperature rise this century to within 2 C above pre-industrial levels to meet the UN Paris Agreement has been estimated to cost the world economy US $600T. But rapid changes in the Arctic could push that figure even higher https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/cost-of-climate-change-rising-even-faster-1.5112795?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar 5 comments worldnews
- Climate change: World is getting close to exceeding temperature limit, UN report says | In the next five years, the world has nearly a 1-in-4 chance of experiencing a year that’s hot enough to put the global temperature at 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial times, according to a new UN update https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/climate-change-world-is-getting-close-to-exceeding-temperature-limit-un-report-says 373 comments worldnews
- Cost of climate change rising even faster | Keeping a global temperature rise this century to within 2C above pre-industrial levels, to meet the UN Paris Agreement, has been estimated to cost the world economy $600 trillion US. But rapid changes in the Arctic could push that figure even higher https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/cost-of-climate-change-rising-even-faster-1.5112795?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar 18 comments worldnews
- World’s lake ice rapidly shrinking due to climate change | The world’s lake ice is rapidly shrinking as global temperatures climb, with potential to upend everything from seasonal transportation & recreation to the ecological health of tens of thousands of inland waters, scientists said on Monday https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-worlds-lake-ice-rapidly-shrinking-as-global-temperatures-climb-due-to/ 4 comments worldnews
- Rising temperatures could drive 100m into extreme poverty, World Bank warns | Efforts to curb climate change must be twinned with programmes to cut poverty, warns a study of the threat posed by global warming to food security http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/nov/08/world-bank-climate-change-poverty-shock-waves 11 comments science
- World’s lake cover shrinking as global temperatures climb | Climate change could see tens of thousands of lakes across scores of countries in the Northern Hemisphere lose annual winter ice cover under current warming trends, a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change has found https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-worlds-lake-ice-rapidly-shrinking-as-global-temperatures-climb-due-to/ 3 comments worldnews