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4.5 Billion Years of the Earth’s Temperature
This blog post will give a brief overview of how the Earth’s temperature has changed up to the present day. We only have actual temperature measurements going back a couple of hundred years however...
View ArticleAn Update To The Milankovitch Cycles
My second post (The Milankovitch Cycles) was recently linked to another blog post. This post, which is a bit more ‘sciencey’ than mine, gives a new approach to the Milankovitch Cycles. It states that...
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The North Atlantic Oscillation
Hello everyone, sorry it’s been a while since my last post. This post is about the North Atlantic Oscillation – an atmospheric phenomenon that heavily influences the northern hemisphere’s (NH) climate,...
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ENSO Explained
The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a natural phenomenon that occurs in the Pacific Ocean around the equator every 2-7 years. Weather systems on the West Coast of the Americas, the East Coast of...
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Key Figures From The IPCC’s AR5 Report
What is the IPCC? The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) was set up in 1988 by member governments and established by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations...
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Key Findings from the IPCC Working Group 2: Impacts & Risks from Climate Change
Introduction The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) consists of three working groups who publish reports every 6 years describing the current understanding of all aspects of climate...
View ArticleUN Climate Summit: Ban Ki-moon Final Summary
Last week the UN 2014 Climate Summit was hosted in New York. The purpose of this meeting was “to raise political momentum for a meaningful universal climate agreement in Paris in 2015 and to galvanize...
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How much methane does a cow actually produce?
Cows are notorious for the amount of methane they produce. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas (GHG), but just how much do cows actually give off and how does this compare to other methane emission...
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Summary of the IPCC’s 5th annual report at the Cambridge Centre for Climate...
This week I wrote a blog post for the Cambridge Centre for Climate Science (CCfCS). It’s a summary of an afternoon of talks about the IPCC 5th annual report on climate change. The event was organised...
View ArticleTime to say goodbye
Hello readers, It’s been far too long since I wrote anything meaningful on this blog, so I have decided that this will be my last post. I have really enjoyed researching and writing on here but I now...
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