A blog by postgraduate researcher Sam Birch On what turned out to be a busy day for UK climate and energy policy, we were fortunate enough to be joined by the Chief Executive of the Climate Change Committee (CCC), Chris Stark and some of his team for a presentation and...
In recent years there has been a significant increase in the level of attention directed towards climate and the global financial sector. In the last of our Climate and… seminar series, Professor Iain Clacher and Professor Jason Lowe shared their thoughts on the emergence of climate as a consideration for...
A blog by Dr Joel Millward-Hopkins and Dr Yannick Oswald Energy consumption is essential for human wellbeing, but there is enormous inequality in energy use worldwide. The top 10% of global energy consumers use roughly 30 times more energy than the bottom 10%. Our energy use also drives climate change....
A blog by Paloma Trascasa-Castro, PhD Candidate in Climate Science at Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, and the University of Leeds Every two to seven years, the equatorial Pacific Ocean gets up to 3°C warmer (what we know as an El Niño event) or colder (La Niña) than usual, triggering a cascade...
A blog by Professor Piers Forster, Director of the Priestley Centre The US economist William Nordhaus claimed as early as the 1970s, when scientific understanding of climate change was still taking shape, that warming of more than 2°C would “push global conditions past any point that any human civilisation had...