Grahame Madge

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21 05 2022 | 07:56

Climate change making heatwaves more intense

The chances of a record-breaking heatwave in north-west India and Pakistan has been made over 100 times more likely because of climate change says a Met Office study.

18 01 2022 | 11:34

Nature doing heavy lifting to slow carbon-dioxide rise

The rate carbon-dioxide is being added to the atmosphere needs to slow by around 20% over the next five-year period if global warming is to be limited to 1.5°C, says the Met Office in its annual CO2…

03 09 2021 | 14:29

Europe experiences warmest year on record in 2020

The latest edition in an annual series of global climate reports shows that Europe experienced its warmest year in 2020 by a considerable amount. The report showed that 2020 in Europe was 1.9 °C…

27 05 2021 | 10:43

Temporary exceedance of 1.5°C increasingly likely.

There is more than a 40% chance that the annual average global temperature in at least one of the next five years will temporarily reach 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. And these odds are…

07 04 2021 | 09:36

Climate change to put farming sectors under stress.

A new study by the Met Office gives examples of how two of the UK’s most important farming sectors are likely to be impacted by climate change. The study – published in Climate Risk Management –…

10 01 2021 | 10:47

Atmospheric carbon dioxide to pass iconic threshold.

In 2021, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will reach levels 50% higher than before the industrial revolution, due to human-caused emissions, says a Met Office forecast. 

14 08 2020 | 09:47

New report on the state of global climate in 2019.

A major report on the state of the global climate for 2019 published today reveals further evidence of climate change. The 30th edition of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society is a…

12 07 2020 | 08:35

Creating a five-year window into future climate.

Providing annually-updated five-year climate predictions at global and continental scales is the focus of a new international science collaboration co-ordinated by the WMO and led by the UK’s Met…

30 01 2020 | 11:24

New global record ‘likely’ within five years.

Latest predictions suggest that Earth’s global average temperature is likely to reach record warmth during the five-year period 2020-2024. The current warmest year on record is 2016, but the latest …