The next person to chair the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) during a key decade for climate action will be elected on July 26. Scottish Professor Jim Skea is one of the candidates.
The current head of Argentina's National Meteorological Service (SMN, for its acronym in Spanish) has been appointed the new Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization. For the first time in its 150-year history, the top agency for weather, climate and water will be run by a woman.
The latest IPCC report includes a figure that shows global warming over multiple generations. Visual storyteller Arlene Birt was in charge of making it happen: "This figure is the most in alignment with my goals to speak to non-specialists".
"We continue to witness the rise and triumph of the fossil fuel industry over our societies," says Julia K. Steinberger, Professor of Ecological Economics and IPCC author.
"Now is not the time to give into climate fatalism, especially based on false pseudoscientific narratives of unavoidable extinction. Unlike the dinosaurs, we have agency", says the U.S. climate scientist.
Seven years have passed since the Paris Agreement, the most important climate pact to date. Everyone knows the limits of warming, but few know their origins and drivers.
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