Climatology

The year 2016 will "very likely" be the hottest on record, the U.N. said Nov. 14, warning of calamitous consequences if the march of global warming cannot be halted.

The UN  reported this year to “very likely” be the hottest on record, making it the third consecutive year that record temperatures have been broken.  It also noted that 16 of the 17 hottest years recorded have been this century.

Global warming is likely to change the environment of the Mediterranean region in ways unseen in the past 10,000 years, reshaping forests and turning parts of Europe into desert, researchers warned on Oct. 27.

The Mediterranean is known as a hotspot for biodiversity, and it is warming up fast.

Nearly 200 nations have accepted a deal for the reduction of greenhouse gases used in refrigerators and air-conditioners, reported Reuters.

If you spend a lot of time talking to scientists about climate change, there's one word you'll hear time and time again, and yet it's hardly ever mentioned in the public discussion of climate change. The word is "non-linear."

Global economic growth did not translate into more harmful greenhouse gas emissions from the energy sector last year, the IEA said on March 16, a strong indication that growth and increased pollution no longer go hand in hand.

A new United Nations report says 34 countries, nearly 80 percent of them in Africa, do not have enough food for their people because of conflicts, drought and flooding.

The figure has grown from 33 last December, after the addition of Swaziland, which was placed under the countries with severe localized food insecurity. 

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. 

The climate in Turkey will be hotter, drier and less predictable in terms of precipitation in the future, according to a report that was recently presented to the country's parliament.

I went to the COP21 climate summit in Paris, invited by the TEMA Foundation.

The delegations worked for two weeks to try to agree on a joint action plan. The aim was to sign an agreement to limit global warming to 1.5 degree Celsius to stop climate change, which leads to natural disasters, death, migration and famine.