Earth’s 3rd-warmest March on record » Yale Climate Connections
March 2025 was Earth’s third-warmest March in analyses of global weather data going back to 1850, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, or NCEI, reported Apr. 10. NASA and the European Copernicus Climate Change Service rated March 2025 as the second-warmest March on record. Data from the Japan Meteorological Agency and Berkeley Earth were not available at the time […]
Don’t Risk Duttons Nuclear: A Dangerous Step Backwards for Australia
Peter Dutton and the Federal Coalition have proposed a shift in Australia’s energy future – one that involves nuclear reactors. This plan will cost billions, is a risk to the environment, human health and a diversion from the much-needed investment in renewable energy. The Proposal: A Push for Nuclear Energy Peter Dutton’s nuclear plan is […]
Renewables allow us to pay less, not twice
Renewables allow us to pay less, not twice Posted on 9 April 2025 by Guest Author This is a re-post from The Electrotech Revolution by Daan Walter Last week, UK Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch took the stage to advocate for slowing the rollout of renewables, arguing that they ultimately lead to higher costs: “Huge […]
Computer models have been accurately predicting climate change for 50 years » Yale Climate Connections
Transcript: Climate scientists do not have crystal balls. But they do have climate models that provide remarkably accurate projections of global warming – and have done so for decades. Zeke Hausfather is a research scientist at Berkeley Earth. He looked at climate models dating back to the 1970s and evaluated their predictions for how increasing […]
Peter Dutton must reject Trump-style plan to leave Paris Agreement
SYDNEY, Thursday 10 April 2025 — In response to comments by Shadow Energy Minister Ted O’Brien that the Coalition could leave the Paris Agreement if elected, David Ritter, CEO at Greenpeace Australia Pacific, said: “Abandoning the Paris Agreement is a terrible idea, straight out of Donald Trump’s playbook, that would harm our economy, our global […]
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #15 2025
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #15 2025 Posted on 10 April 2025 by Doug Bostrom, Marc Kodack Open access notables Global and regional drivers for exceptional climate extremes in 2023-2024: beyond the new normal, Minobe et al., npj Climate and Atmospheric Science: Climate records have been broken with alarming regularity in recent years, but […]
A love letter to strange creatures
Image credit: Jane Rucker Did you love dinosaurs as a child? Personally, I remember going through an intense phase of obsession with the prehistoric world as a young kid. As a five-year-old, I hoped to discover some species of ancient beast—a home-grown austrosaurus, or a rhoetosaurus perhaps—that had somehow survived, undiscovered, in the undergrowth of […]
Your impact: 4 bold moves for nature and climate this election
The end of March was a huge week in pre-election politics, and Greenpeace was in Canberra making an impact for nature and the climate. We helped ensure fairer process for Scott Reef As the deadline for a decision on Woodside’s North West Shelf extension got closer, Greenpeace had to decide whether to submit our reconsideration […]
‘Ambitious but sensible’: Greenpeace welcomes Greens’ plan for clean jobs and climate solutions
SYDNEY, Thursday 10 April 2025 — In response to the release of The Greens’ Powering Past Coal and Gas energy plan released today, Joe Rafalowicz, Head of Climate and Energy at Greenpeace Australia Pacific, said: “Greenpeace welcomes The Greens’ Powering Past Coal and Gas plan released today. Not only does the plan respond to the […]
A legacy of resistance lives on in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ » Yale Climate Connections
On a recent Wednesday night, three flares were raging from the industrial smoke stacks at Norco Shell, so bright they could be seen miles away from the interstate at the Bonnet Carré Spillway. They were my guide to Woodland Plantation in La Place, Louisiana, whose new owners were commemorating the site of the largest enslaved […]