Jun 2, 2024 | Climate Science
What is maladaptation? Maladaptation has been researched since the 1990s [4] and is commonly mentioned in policy, such as in national adaptation plans [5]. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has also discussed the risks of maladaptation [1], [6]....
Apr 16, 2024 | Climate Science
Positive tipping points Negative tipping points are a well-documented impact of climate change [1], but many positive changes have and will reach the point of no return, where they develop and accelerate rapidly, in some cases even outperforming our most ambitious...
Apr 16, 2024 | Climate Science
Negative tipping points Our understanding of climate change is typically based on the linear relationship between cumulative emissions and average temperature–we know that a rising temperature is undesirable, so we need to limit our emissions. But this does not...
Aug 20, 2023 | Climate Science
What are droughts and which tools are used to track them? According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) fourth assessment report, drought is a “deficiency of precipitation that results in water shortage for some activity or for some...
May 1, 2023 | Climate Science
New Year’s Day 2023 saw record high temperatures across Europe, setting the scene for yet another year of weather extremes [1]. It follows a year of exceptional weather events, such as the record-breaking rains that led to a massive flooding in Pakistan, the...
May 21, 2022 | Climate Science
The industrial revolution has brought about an increase in global temperature due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The resulting phenomenon called ‘global warming’ is defined by the International Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) as an...
