Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election shocked climate scientists and policymakers after a campaign in which Trump had suggested—falsely—that climate change was a hoax and vowed to largely undo federal and international measures aimed at addressing global warming.
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The Paris climate change agreement to curb rising global temperatures moved closer to coming into force on Sunday, after India, the world’s fourth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, formally signed on to the pact.
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The vast, scrabbly sheath of sea ice drifting on the Arctic Ocean ended its annual summer retreat this week, and the result was sobering. This year tied with 2007 as having the second smallest ice extent ever recorded, the National Snow and Ice Data Centerannounced yesterday.
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Seventy-four years ago, a naval battle off this remote spit of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean changed the course of World War II. Last week, President Obama flew here to swim with Hawaiian monk seals and draw attention to a quieter war — one he has waged against rising seas, freakish storms, deadly droughts and other symptoms of a planet choking on its own fumes.
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Il trattato entrerà in vigore legalmente solo quando sarà ratificato da almeno 55 Paesi le cui emissioni sommate rappresentino il 55 per cento delle emissioni globali di CO2 ma gli studiosi temono che sia comunque già tardi per raggiungere l’obiettivo del contenere il surriscaldamento.
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A new State of the Climate report confirmed that 2015 surpassed 2014 as the warmest year since at least the mid-to-late 19th century. Last year’s record heat resulted from the combined influence of long-term global warming and one of the strongest El Niño events the globe has experienced since at least 1950.
