Climate history

NEW YORK - Serbia will continue to contribute to UN activities "and all other international, European and regional initiatives to address the impacts of global climate change," Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said Friday in New York, where he attended the signing of the Paris Agreement on climate change.

The continued drought in the eastern Mediterranean, including the Levant region and Turkey, since 1998 was drier than the worst drought in the past 900 years, a new study by NASA has revealed. 

195 envoys approved a historic deal in Paris to stop global warming so that humanity can avert a catastrophe on climate change. Here are the key points in a graphic by AFP.

Before the climate conference in Paris, there were huge "climate justice" demonstrations all over the world. The concept of climate justice is a new one that has emerged in recent years. It demands the addressing of production, consumption and commerce forms that generate climate change.  

The year 2015 is shaping up to be the hottest on record, the UN's weather agency said Nov. 25, days before a UN summit opens in Paris to craft a climate rescue pact.
 
Based on data for the first 10 months of the year, "We feel very confident... that 2015 will be the warmest year on record," said Michel Jarraud, head of the World Meteorological Organization.
 

July was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth, according to scientists. Their predictions are even more alarming as 2015 will most certainly be the hottest year on record.

"There are examples of species all over the world that are essentially the walking dead," said Stanford University Professor Paul Ehrlich. "We are sawing off the limb that we are sitting on."

Three U.S. universities have issued a report warning that the Earth has entered a new period of extinction. The study by the universities of Stanford, Princeton and Berkeley stated that vertebrates were disappearing at a rate 114 times faster than normals and conclude that humans could be among the first casualties.

A team of geologists from the Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca is conducting a research project that uses guano deposits in several Romanian caves, some of them more than 10,000 years old, to determine the climate changes occurred in various geological periods.

Photo credit: (c) Babes-Bolyai University project website

The year 2014 was the hottest on record, "consistent" with a changing climate, the UN's weather agency said Feb. 2.
      
Average global air temperatures in 2014 were 0.57 degrees Celsius (1.03 degree Fahrenheit) higher than the long-term average of 14 C (57.2 F) in a 1961-1990 reference period, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in a statement.