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Abstract. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessments are the trusted source of scientific evidence for climate negotiations taking place under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Evidence-based decision-making needs to be informed by up-to-date and timely information on key indicators of the state of the climate system and of the human influence on the global climate system. However, successive IPCC reports are published at intervals of 5–10 years, creating potential for an information gap between report cycles. We follow methods as close as possible to those used in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group One (WGI) report. We compile monitoring datasets to produce estimates for key climate indicators related to forcing of the climate system: emissions of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate forcers, greenhouse gas concentrations, radiative forcing, the Earth's energy imbalance, surface temperature changes, warming attributed to human activit

Le secrétaire-général de l’ONU appelle à une action immédiate pour le climat. Selon lui, la décennie actuelle est décisive. Le GIEC a publié leurs calculs détaillés concernant l’année 2023. Cette s…

Annually updated, IPCC AR6 consistent indicators of human-induced global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, and the remaining global carbon budget.

As the public conversation on climate change evolves, so too does the sophistication and range of arguments used to downplay or discount the need for action (McKie, Reference McKie2019; Norgaard, Reference Norgaard2011). A mainstay of this counter-movement has been outright denial of the reality or human causation of climate change (Farrell et al., Reference Farrell, McConnell and Brulle2019), supplemented by climate-impact scepticism (Harvey et al., Reference Harvey, Van Den Berg, Ellers, Kampen, Crowther, Roessingh and Mann2018) and ad hominem attacks on scientists and the scientific consensus (Oreskes & Conway, Reference Oreskes and Conway2011). A fourth strategy has received relatively little attention to date: policy-focused discourses that exploit contemporary discussions on what action should be taken, how fast, who bears responsibility and where costs and benefits should be allocated (Bohr, Reference Bohr2016; Jacques & Knox, Reference Jacques and Knox2016; McKie, Reference McKie2019). We call these ‘

Global temperature (12-month mean) is still rising at 1.56°C relative to 1880-1920 in the GISS analysis through April (Fig. 1). [Robert Rohde reports that it is 1.65°C relative to 1850-1900 in the BerkeleyEarth analysis.[3]] Global temperature is likely to continue to rise a bit for at least a month, peak this summer, and then decline as the El Nino fades toward La Nina. Acceleration of global warming is now hard to deny. The GISS 12-month temperature is now 0.36°C above the 0.18°C/decade trend line, which is 3.6 times the standard deviation (0.1°C). Confidence in global warming acceleration thus exceeds 99%, but we need to see how far temperature falls with the next La Nina before evaluating the post-2010 global warming rate.

L’effondrement des écosystèmes serait dangereux pour l’économie. Il peut se répercuter au niveau global. La forêt amazonienne, les tourbières tropicales et les mangroves contiennent actuellement environ 220 gigatonnes de carbone. Si elles sont perturbées, elles peuvent subir des changements incontrôlables qui feraient basculer l’écosystème vers une savane non boisée. Leur effondrement provoquerait des émissions de carbone équivalentes à environ 20 ans d’émissions mondiales de CO2 actuelles. Cela pourrait empêcher le maintien d’un climatique de moins d’ 1,5°C, et aurait de nombreuses conséquences directes.

Exclusive: Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds

The Global Tipping Points Report was launched at COP28 on 6 December 2023. The report is an authoritative assessment of the risks and opportunities of both negative and positive tipping points in the Earth system and society. Global Tipping Points is led by Professor Tim Lenton from the University of Exeter’s Global Systems Institute with the support of more than 200 researchers from over 90 organisations in 26 countries.

Mitigating climate change necessitates global cooperation, yet global data on individuals’ willingness to act remain scarce. In this study, we conducted a representative survey across 125 countries, interviewing nearly 130,000 individuals. Our findings reveal widespread support for climate action. Notably, 69% of the global population expresses a willingness to contribute 1% of their personal income, 86% endorse pro-climate social norms and 89% demand intensified political action. Countries facing heightened vulnerability to climate change show a particularly high willingness to contribute. Despite these encouraging statistics, we document that the world is in a state of pluralistic ignorance, wherein individuals around the globe systematically underestimate the willingness of their fellow citizens to act. This perception gap, combined with individuals showing conditionally cooperative behaviour, poses challenges to further climate action. Therefore, raising awareness about the broad global support for climat

L’hiver passé, des nuages stratosphériques couleur de l’arc-en-ciel ont été observés en Europe. Ils apparaissent habituellement dans les régions les plus froides de la Planète en janvier. En déce…

Global projections of macroeconomic climate-change damages typically consider impacts from average annual and national temperatures over long time horizons1–6. Here we use recent empirical findings from more than 1,600 regions worldwide over the past 40 years to project sub-national damages from temperature and precipitation, including daily variability and extremes7,8. Using an empirical approach that provides a robust lower bound on the persistence of impacts on economic growth, we find that the world economy is committed to an income reduction of 19% within the next 26 years independent of future emission choices (relative to a baseline without climate impacts, likely range of 11–29% accounting for physical climate and empirical uncertainty). These damages already outweigh the mitigation costs required to limit global warming to 2 °C by sixfold over this near-term time frame and thereafter diverge strongly dependent on emission choices. Committed damages arise predominantly through changes in average tempe

Une revue publiée dans PLOS One cumpulse les risques du climat pour les infrastructures. Selon l’étude, les dommages annuels moyens s’élèvent actuellement à environ 700 milliards de dollars par an. Ce chiffre devrait être multiplié par plusieurs au cours du 21e siècle en raison du changement climatique et aussi de l’expansion des actifs d’infrastructure. Le climat aura notamment des conséquences sur le transport routier et ferroviaire : les hautes températures amènent des distorsions des rails, des changements importants de températures provoquent le dégel du permafrost et des déformations du terrain. Les précipitations intenses causent des inondations, des glissements de terrain, des perturbations de l’équipement électronique, des mouvements des rails, et des dépôts sur les voies. Les vents forts déracinent les arbres et transportent d’autres objets, par exemple des tôles ondulées, qui interrompent les lignes électriques et endommagent les rails.

Over the past year, there has been a vigorous debate among scientists – and more broadly – about whether global warming is “accelerating”.

A long-term sea level dataset shows ocean surface heights continuing to rise at faster and faster rates over decades of observations. Global average sea level rose by about 0.3 inches (0.76 centimeters) from 2022 to 2023, a relatively large jump due mostly to a warming climate and the development of a strong El Niño. The total rise is equivalent to draining a quarter of Lake Superior into the ocean over the course of a year.

Il y a quelques années, le Programme pour l’Environnement des Nations Unies (PNUE) a soigneusement élaboré un plan pour sauver la Planète. Les émissions de carbone planétaires devaient être réduites de 7,5% ou 8% par année dès 2020. Si ce plan avait été appliqué, elles auraient aujourd’hui baissé d’un tiers. Le PNUE note malheureusement à la fin de 2023 que les émissions de carbone ont atteint un nouveau record, même si celles de l’Europe diminuaient déjà à la fin de 2022. Il est devenu évident que ces objectifs ne seraient pas atteints et que chaque année nous ajoutons à l’atmosphère trop de CO2. D’autres plans de sauvetage de la biosphère ont donc été développés.