(Vietnam, Paracel Islands); 13, Philippines; 14, Indonesia; 15, western Australia; 16, Great Barrier Reef; 17, Ryukyu Islands; 18, Mariana Islands; 19, Palau; 20, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu; 21, Fiji; 22, Samoa; 23, French Polynesia (including Moorea); 24, Hawaiian Islands; 25, ...
CRU found that even with their disputed surface record, there was a sharp cooling in both hemispheres from a peak in 1998, but their global graph did not reflect this - instead it shows a resumed warming. Of course, it is only the global graph which gets published in the media, and giv...
There are over 40 possible scenarios of future climate change in all.The IPCC point out that no one future scenario is preferred over the others. They range from the extreme - predicting a warming of +6°C by 2100, to the moderate - just +1°C over the same period. The other ...
Freshwater stress is expected to intensify for most small island developing states, particularly in the Caribbean and eastern Atlantic, under 1.5 and 2 °C warming scenarios (Karnauskas et al. 2018). 3.1.4 Livelihood failure, food insecurity, degradation of human health and inequality Increasing ...
resulting in glacial melting in the tropical region of the Andes Mountains88. The combination of elevated temperatures and increased floods has significantly impacted many cities in the Global South due to global warming9. Mountainous countries, such as Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia, face sig...
Slower decay of landfalling hurricanes in a warming world. Nature 587, 230–234 (2020). Article CAS PubMed ADS Google Scholar Chan, K. T., Zhang, K., Wu, Y. & Chan, J. C. Landfalling hurricane track modes and decay. Nature 606, E7–E11 (2022). Article CAS PubMed ADS Google ...
The momentum is with Pacific island countries at next month’s summit in Glasgow, and they have powerful friends. The United Kingdom, European Union and United States all want to see warming limited to 1.5℃. This powerful alliance will turn the screws on countries dragging down the global ef...
reduce global warming and protect the future of low lying countries. In more recent years though, the flooding and soil salination have become such a problem in Tuvalu that the government there has made plans to evacuate the entire population to other countries as it is believed that Tuvalu wi...
They found that the change in world temperature could increase the threat of drought and wildfires if the goal of the Paris Agreement on global warming is not achieved. The Paris accord, which took effect on Nov. 4, 2016, urged countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions so as to bring the...
forced to leave their homes due to untenable environmental impacts. In parts of Fiji andTuvalu,increased salinity is forcing families to grow their root crops in metal buckets instead of in the ground. In Majuro atoll, the capital of the Marshall Islands, sea walls have been constructed to ...