New Scientist - Climate Change
New Scientist - Climate Change
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Why it's time for change at the IPCC
August 31, 2010
The forceful analysis of the IPCC's failings published by the InterAcademy Council is a strong dose of realism about the organisation's failings
Arctic ice: Less than meets the eye
August 31, 2010
The ice may not retreat as much as feared this year, but what remains may be more rotten than robust
Climate panel must 'fundamentally reform' to survive
August 30, 2010
The IPCC must change how it operates if it is to regain the public's trust, according to a major review
Slavoj Žižek: Wake up and smell the apocalypse
August 30, 2010
The Marxist philosopher says environmentalism is a new opiate of the people, Bill Gates has privatised part of our intellect, and reality is incomplete
Time to blame climate change for extreme weather?
August 25, 2010
Climate researchers are starting to put figures on how much climate change is to blame for weather events, opening the door to claims for compensation
Geoengineering won't undo sea level rises
August 23, 2010
None of the proposed technologies will stop sea levels rising this century and swamping low-lying lands, a modelling study finds
Kyoto targets are impossible to verify
August 13, 2010
In 2012 rich nations must prove that they have cut emissions in accordance with their targets – but that may be an impossible task
The next best thing to oil
August 12, 2010
The energy from concentrating solar power is already being used to generate hydrogen – it's a short step from there to liquid hydrocarbons
Is climate change burning Russia?
August 12, 2010
For weeks Russia has sweltered, recording its highest ever temperatures – here is New Scientist's guide to the causes and consequences
Frozen jet stream links Pakistan floods, Russian fires
August 10, 2010
A holding pattern in the jet stream means weather systems stick around with violent consequences
World politics
August 4, 2010
Clive Hamilton's article on the debate over geoengineering highlights a regrettable tendency for discussion of climate change to be polarised by political dogma (17...
Solar cycle may drive Venice's floods
July 31, 2010
If you want to see Venice with dry feet, don't go when the sun has lots of spots. Peaks in solar activity cause the city to flood more often
Climategate scientist breaks his silence
July 28, 2010
With inquiries into the affair now complete, Phil Jones reflects on his bruising experiences at the centre of the storm
Climategate data sets to be made public
July 27, 2010
Researchers at the centre of the climategate controversy plan to release three major temperature data sets and details of how they are processed
Baby boomer marmots fatten up with climate change
July 21, 2010
Colorado's baby-boomer marmots have been getting fatter and their population has been swelling – the changes seem to be caused by the warming climate
An evil atmosphere is forming around geoengineering
July 21, 2010
Right-wing think tanks that deny climate change is even happening are advocating climate engineering to fix it. Don't heed them, warns Clive Hamilton
Geoengineering fix won't suit everyone
July 18, 2010
Pumping aerosols into the atmosphere could help offset climate change, but everyone will want to use different amounts
Timber piracy down - but we're not out of the woods
July 15, 2010
Illegal logging in deforestation hotspots has fallen by 50 to 75 per cent in the past decade, but that may not equal trees saved on the ground
Climate scientists respond to 'climategate' report
July 14, 2010
It's time to abandon the black-and-white fiction that human-induced climate change is fact or conspiracy, they say
Law of hurricane power discovered
July 11, 2010
The intensity of hurricanes follows a simple mathematical law – a finding that could help us predict how they will respond to climate change
Soaring Arctic temperatures - a warning from history
July 9, 2010
With carbon dioxide levels near our own, the Pliocene Arctic may have warmed much more than we thought – and today's Arctic could go the same way
Climategate inquiry: no deceit, too little cooperation
July 7, 2010
The official UK inquiry into the climategate affair confirms the "rigour and honesty of the scientists involved" but tells them to be more open
Prehistoric humans may have pushed climate change
July 7, 2010
Humans were fiddling with climate thousands of years even before we started farming – if we had a hand in the extinction of woolly mammoths
Climate change could drive crocs out of the water
July 7, 2010
Warming waters could mean crocodiles will struggle to find food and protection
Climate change report is 'reliable but flawed'
July 6, 2010
An assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's report found a tendency to highlight worst-case scenarios
