Simon Roach
The chance to meet climate targets almost gone, warns UN report
A landmark UN report warns that devastating climate change is already here, and the time to prevent more is running out.
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Global record breaking temperature is ‘500x bigger’ than expectations says climate change professor
We spoke to Professor Piers Forster of Physical Climate Change at the University of Leeds – who’s interim chair of the government’s climate change committee.
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Global temperatures soared to record high in September
Figures released today by the EU’s climate agency reveal global temperatures soared to record high for September – surpassing the previous record for the month by 0.5 degrees.
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FactCheck: what we know about the Libyan flood and climate change
Research is still underway to establish the exact role climate change could have played in Storm Daniel and the Libya flood.
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‘Warmer oceans created by climate change have made hurricanes worse’, says Professor of Thermal Sciences
We spoke to John Abraham, a climate scientist and Professor at the University of St.Thomas in the United States, and asked him to what extent hurricanes like the one we’re seeing in Florida are caused by rising temperatures in the oceans.
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Hurricane Idalia: ‘Catastrophic’ storm hits Florida
By the time it came ashore on the Florida coast, Idalia was a Category 3 hurricane – deemed ‘extremely dangerous’ by experts.
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Sunak claims North Sea gas ‘four times’ less polluting than imports
On the day he announced hundreds of new North Sea oil and gas licenses prime minister Rishi Sunak told reporters that producing natural gas in the UK is “better for the climate” than importing it from abroad. He said that’s because it’s “far better to have it here at home rather than shipping it here…
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Would new North Sea oil and gas make Britain more energy independent?
The government will grant hundreds of new licences to extract oil and gas from the North Sea, Rishi Sunak said on Monday. The initial decision was announced last year, but Mr Sunak reiterated the plan this week alongside “millions of pounds” for so-called “carbon capture and storage” technology — which the government says would help reduce…
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FactCheck: were the Greek wildfires caused by climate change?
This summer has already been marked as another year with record-breaking heat right across the globe, from China to North Africa and North America to Europe. In the past week at least 34 people died from spreading wildfires in Algeria, while in the Greek island of Rhodes thousands were evacuated due to wildfires following extreme…
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What’s going on with the world’s oceans – and what’s a marine heatwave?
The world’s oceans have been heating to unprecedented levels in recent months, with some scientists debating whether the climate is changing beyond expectation. In the UK, June is now set to be the hottest on record. Similar records have been tumbling elsewhere and Antarctic ice has receded to its lowest point ever. The Met Office…
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Revealed: Fossil fuel companies lobby UK government for gas ‘compromise’ ahead of COP26
Some of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies have lobbied the UK government to support a gas “compromise” ahead of the COP26 UN conference, Channel 4 News can reveal.
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ExxonMobil lobbyist reveals company’s involvement with ‘forever chemicals’
A senior ExxonMobil lobbyist, captured on camera by Greenpeace UK’s Unearthed, has claimed that the company “manufactures” and “uses” controversial so-called “forever chemicals” and is working to delay a ban on their use.
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ExxonMobil chief exec apologises over revelations of lobbying war against climate legislation
The chief executive of ExxonMobil has issued a public apology after secret filming of one of its senior lobbyists was broadcast exclusively on Channel 4 News exposing tactics used by the oil giant to water down US climate legislation.
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FactCheck: Is this a green revolution?
Boris Johnson’s environment strategy has been billed as a “green industrial revolution”. But only a quarter of the £12bn of government spending announced this week is really new money.
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US election: What a Trump or Biden victory means for the climate
What are the climate implications of a Trump or Biden presidency?
