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Consuming climate change
Climate change icon By Matthew Rech In a recent paper, Kate Manzo discusses the iconography of climate change in contemporary climate action campaigns. She argues that the visual communication of...
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Coasts Develop Despite Rising Sea Levels
By Georgia Davis Conover Despite predictions of rising sea levels due to climate change, nearly 75% of Florida’s 1,197-mile coastline is currently developed or slated for development in the coming...
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A (surprisingly?) quiet 2009 hurricane season
By Clare Boston Forecasts for the 2009 hurricane season were wide ranging earlier this year, from an active season to a near-normal or below average one. In reality, 2009 remained much quieter than in...
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Copenhagen 2009: “All the world’s a stage…” and at stake
By Rosa Mas Giralt As the Copenhagen climate summit approaches, global audiences await its outcomes. Over two weeks of discussions, delegates from 192 countries will meet to try to establish a new...
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Environment, geopolitics and critique
By Matthew Rech Simon Dalby, writing in Geography Compass, provides a compelling argument that prompts us to reconsider our place in the world, and to challenge implicit geographies associated with...
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Global warming is real
View from the NASA Terra Satellite on 7 Jan 2010 By Clare Boston Our recent spell of cold weather has once again invoked questions about whether global warming really is happening. Alongside a recent...
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The human consequences of climate change
Andy Hacket Pain Over the last few years, there has been much recent media interest in the impacts of climatic warming in the Arctic region, with the Guardian recently reporting new research that...
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Norwegian Problem Solving
By Caitlin Douglas In exchange for a payment from Norway of US$1 billion, Indonesia has recently pledged to introduce a two year moratorium on deforestation. The action is being undertaken as a...
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Accessing local climate records
By Andy Hacket Pain We hear a lot in the news about climate change, with global scale trends and predictions . This large research effort is underpinned by the historic data for climate change, some of...
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Geography and Global Warming
By Paulette Cully According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) the world is on course for the hottest year ever since records began in 1880. January to June temperatures...
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Learning for food
I-Hsien Porter Global climate change is likely to cause significant changes, or at least greater uncertainty, in human lifestyles. One vulnerable area of our relationship with the environment is food...
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Overcoming inertia not to act on climate change
I-Hsien Porter In a commentary in The Observer, Robin McKie outlines some of the statistics that reinforce the argument for man-made climate change. The concentration of greenhouse gases in the...
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An insight into the consequences of climate change?
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas. Human activities, e.g. farming, have resulted in the release of large amounts of methane into the atmosphere. However, in locations across the world, large amounts...
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Mapping carbon emissions
I-Hsien Porter The Guardian website recently published a map of carbon emissions by country. There were few surprises. China is the world’s biggest emitter of carbon dioxide. hile recession-hit Europe...
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No change from climate change: island vulnerability
Eroding shoreline in Samoa, the Pacific (photograph: Ilan Kelman) by Ilan Kelman Climate change is often touted as humanity’s biggest development challenge. Low-lying, tropical islands are particularly...
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Our Nation is Sinking: The Maldives and Global Warming
by Benjamin Sacks Malé, the congested capital of the Maldives. © 2014 Wikimedia Commons. The Maldives is sinking. Like several other South Asian and Oceanic archipelagos, the Maldives’s topography...
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Using spatial science and lightning to predict thunderstorms
By Joseph J. Bailey, University of Nottingham Lightning, while visually stunning and often quite exciting, poses a very real threat to humans (e.g. Europe in May; increased deaths in the USA) and...
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A transition to working from home won’t slash emissions unless we make...
by Hannah Budnitz, University of Oxford; Emmanouil Tranos, University of Bristol, and Lee Chapman, University of Birmingham This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons...
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Arctic Ocean: why winter sea ice has stalled, and what it means for the rest...
by Jonathan Bamber, University of Bristol This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Arctic sea ice plays a crucial role in the...
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Climate change: what would 4°C of global warming feel like?
By Robert Wilby, Loughborough University This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Lunatictm/Shutterstock Another year, another...
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