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Nobody’s honest. Scientists are not honest. And people usually believe that they are. That makes it worse. By honest I don’t mean that you only tell what’s true. But you make clear the entire situation. You make clear all the information that is required for somebody else who is intelligent to make up their mind.

Expanded and updated 11th November“If we could come up with a geoengineering answer to this problem, then Copenhagen wouldn’t be necessary. We could carry on flying our planes and driving our cars.” — Richard Branson, 2009

Plants will store more CO2 in a very high-emissions world, according to a new study in Science Advances.

Carbon dioxide removals must start at scale sooner than people think | Special report

Friday, November 17 was the hottest ever recorded on Earth. Friday saw the global average temperature rise by 2.06°C above the seasonal average in the pre-industrial era, exceeding the limit set by the Paris Agreement in 2015. The months from June to October have already been the hottestEver recorded in the world. 2023 will surpass with "near certainty" the annual record of 2016, according to the European Copernicus observatory. The Paris Agreement aims to keep "the increase in theg...

The fossil fuel industry must not influence COP outcomes.

Countries’ ‘emissions gap’ is like an emissions canyon littered with broken promises, broken lives, and broken records, says UN chief

The world “must change track”, warns the latest “emissions gap” report from UNEP. If it fails to do so, “we will be saying the same thing next year".

Lincolnshire Police's Chief Constable Chris Haward says he will leave his current post in February.

Two degrees Celsius — or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit — is the internationally agreed upon upper limit of warming established by the 2015 Paris climate agreement.