Climate Change

Despite global warming, this January was coldest in six years

PUNE: January this year was something of a paradox in the age of global warming. It was the coldest January since 2012, but this winter was the fourth warmest the last 117 years.

Publication Date: 
14/03/2018
Times Of India (Pune)
Tags:
Global Warming, Climate Change, Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Himachal Pradesh, El Nino
Climate Change

Climate-change–driven accelerated sea-level rise detected in the altimeter era

Satellite altimetry has shown that global mean sea level has been rising at a rate of ∼3 ± 0.4 mm/y since 1993. Using the altimeter record coupled with careful consideration of interannual and decadal variability as well as potential instrument errors, we show that this rate is accelerating at 0.084 ± 0.025 mm/y2, which agrees well with climate model projections. If sea level continues to change at this rate and acceleration, sea-level rise by 2100 (∼65 cm) will be more than double the amount if the rate was constant at 3 mm/y.

Publication Date: 
12/02/2018
R. S. Nerem, B. D. Beckley, J. T. Fasullo & et al
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Tags:
Climate Change, Sea Level Rise, Climate Science, El Nino, Greenland, Antarctica, Glacial Melt, Remote Sensing
Agriculture

Policy support gap for ‘climate-smart’ agric

Johannesburg – Conditioned that ploughing is the sure way to produce crops, Zimbabwean farmer Handrixious Zvomarima surprised himself by trying a different method.

Publication Date: 
29/01/2018
Southern African
Tags:
Agriculture, Climate Change, Zimbabwe, Droughts, El Nino, FAO, Climate Adaptation, Farmers, Green House Gases, Africa
Climate Change

Global warming is real! 2017 was the second-warmest year since 1880: Nasa

Analyses show that the five warmest years on record all have taken place since 2010

Publication Date: 
23/01/2018
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Global Warming, Climate Change, NASA, El Nino
Climate Change

2017 warmest year, Kenya among most affected countries - FAO

Provisional figures for global average temperatures show last year was the hottest without the influence of warming from El Niño.

Publication Date: 
22/01/2018
Star (Kenya)
Tags:
Climate Change, Global Warming, Climate Impacts, Kenya, FAO, Agriculture, Farmers, Food Security, El Nino, Africa
Climate Change

2017 was world’s hottest year ever without El Nino, says Nasa

Earth's long-term warming trend continued in 2017, government scientists reported on Thursday, with average surface temperatures only slightly below the record heat of the previous year.

Publication Date: 
19/01/2018
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, El Nino, NASA, Carbon Dioxide, Green House Gases, Global Warming
Climate Change

2017: another record-breaking year for heat and extreme weather

This report reviews the trends in average global temperature and the extreme weather events that occurred in 2017. The report finds that the global temperature averaged over the last five years (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017) has been confirmed as the highest ever on record for any five-year period.

Publication Date: 
18/01/2018
Climate Council
Tags:
Heat Waves, Extreme Weather Events, Cyclones, El Nino, Global, Climate Change
Climate Change

2017 fourth hottest year ever in country

Pune: Even as parts of northern and central India shivered this winter and El Nino was absent, 2017 turned out to be the fourth hottest year ever recorded in India.

Publication Date: 
09/01/2018
Times Of India (Pune)
Tags:
Global Warming, Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), El Nino, European Union (EU), Carbon Dioxide, Green House Gases, World Meteorological Orgnisation ('WMO)
Climate Change

2017 was the hottest year on record without an El Niño, thanks to global warming

2017 was the second-hottest year on record according to Nasa data, and was the hottest year without the short-term warming influence of an El Niño event:

Publication Date: 
03/01/2018
Guardian (UK)
Tags:
Climate Change, Global Warming, Global, El Nino, Extreme Weather Events, NASA
Climate Change

Assessment of food security early warning systems for East and Southern Africa

The risk of the El Niño-induced food insecurity in southern Africa in 2016; the recent risk of famine in northern Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, and South Sudan; and the recent outbreak of the fall armyworm (FAW) in East and Southern Africa (ESA) all demonstrate that responses are still largely reactive than proactive.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2018
Ademola Braimoh, Bernard Manyena, Grace Obuya, Francis Muraya
The World Bank
Tags:
Climate Change, Food Security, South Africa, Africa, El Nino

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