Category Archives: Greenhouse gases

Are There Climate Consequences of Using Hydrogen as a Replacement for Coal, Gas and Oil?

Posted on 16 May, 2022 by danaallen

By: Keith Shine There are many possible avenues to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. One of these is a shift to using hydrogen (H2) as a fuel source; it could potentially be used for many current CO2-emitting activities, including industry, heating … Continue reading →

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Climate Change 2021—The Physical Science Basis

Posted on 1 March, 2022 by danaallen

By: Jonathan Gregory, Ed Hawkins, Matt Palmer This document is a short summary of key points that are of current relevance to society from the physical science of climate change. It is based on the headline statements of the report … Continue reading →

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Where Do All My Balloons Go?

Posted on 21 February, 2022 by danaallen

By: Andrew K. Mirza Turbulence! If you have ever travelled by aeroplane, then you may have experienced atmospheric turbulence during the flight: It is when the captain switches on the seat-belt sign; requests all passengers return to their seats and … Continue reading →

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Atmospheric CO2, fossil fuel emissions, Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and the Paris Agreement.

Posted on 7 February, 2022 by danaallen

By: Tristan Quaife The Paris Agreement, which is signed by 193 countries belonging to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, aims to limit the rise in global mean temperature to 2°C, and ideally 1.5°C, above pre-industrial levels. To achieve … Continue reading →

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Does working from home help to reduce climate change?

Posted on 23 November, 2020 by danaallen

By: Helen Dacre During a recent conversation about working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic a friend asked me ‘Given that I no longer commute to work in my car every day, will that help to reduce climate change?’  The … Continue reading →

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Smoke, science, and sharks

Posted on 5 November, 2018 by

By Ross Herbert In the August of 2017 the Cloud-Aerosol-Radiation Interactions and Forcing – Year 2017 (CLARIFY) measurement campaign took place on a tiny island in the middle of the southeast Atlantic Ocean where we were surrounded by whales, sharks, … Continue reading →

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Storylines of regional climate change

Posted on 22 October, 2018 by

By Giuseppe Zappa  An outstanding question for climate science is quantifying how global warming will regionally affect the aspects of climate that are most directly relevant to society, such as precipitation, windiness and extremes. But achieving this task is proving … Continue reading →

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Summer temperatures 2018 – the ‘new normal’?

Posted on 6 August, 2018 by

By Professor Sir Brian Hoskins (Grantham Institute, Imperial College London and Emeritus Professor at the University of Reading department of Meteorology) and Stephen Belcher (Met Office Chief Scientist and Visiting Professor at the University of Reading department of Meteorology) Figure 1. Hyde … Continue reading →

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Estimating the risks of climate change: what are the effects of climate policy?

Posted on 26 March, 2018 by Stephen Burt

By Nigel Arnell I am writing this from Beijing, where the 13th National People’s Congress has just reaffirmed the Chinese commitment to control future emissions of greenhouse gases and meet the aspirations of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. This … Continue reading →

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Domestic implications of climate science

Posted on 27 November, 2017 by Stephen Burt

By Jonathan Gregory I’m a climate scientist. I’ve been working in climate change research since 1990. During those years scientific information has become ever more detailed and convincing regarding the magnitude of climate change in both the past and the … Continue reading →

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