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Leading climate scientists are urging world governments to commission the first authoritative global climate‑risk assessment, warning that the world is dangerously unprepared for the accelerating and interacting threats posed by climate change. Their call follows a new commentary led by Met Office experts and published in Nature, highlighting a “critical gap” in how global climate...
New research has found that instances of severe weather in the UK will increase with every degree of climate change. The study, published in the journal Climatic Change, suggests that the higher the level of global warming, the stronger the projected increase in frequency or severity - or both - of hot weather, droughts and...
From rationed lettuces to devastated cricket grounds, the impacts of extreme weather linked to climate change are becoming ever more apparent in the UK, as illustrated by the Climate Coalition's recently published Weather Warning report - and the shortage of Spanish courgettes in British supermarkets this week. The Priestley International Centre for Climate provided the...