Climate change

Global warming could place 25 to 50 percent of species in the Amazon, Madagascar and other bio-diverse areas at risk of localized extinction within decades, a report has said.

Floods such as those in France over the last few days will increase in Europe as a result of climate warming, even if it is limited to raising temperatures by 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to research findings quoted by AFP.

Turkey will face less snow and more rainfall from now on due to global warming, with more incidents of floods occurring in the country, according to a snow hydrologist working at NASA.

Earth’s surface will almost certainly not warm up four or five degrees Celsius by 2100, according to a study released on Jan. 17 which, if correct, voids worst-case U.N. climate change predictions.

Dangerous climate change and natural disasters are the most likely global risks in 2018, according to a study by the World Economic Forum, quoted by CNBC.

Nearly 1000 specialists have been interviewed for their projections for the current year. The listed risks are from different spheres - economic, environmental, geopolitical, social and technological.

Global warming is expected to unleash more rain, exposing millions more people to river flooding particularly in the United States and parts of Asia, Africa and central Europe, researchers have said.

NASA publishes a map of the world with temperature anomalies. The map shows that in late December and early January in some parts of the world there is either too hot weather or severe frosts.
 

US President Donald Trump ironized the issue of global warming. It was in connection with the very cold wave to the northern states to minus 40 degrees Celsius.

More than 200 institutional investors with $26 trillion in assets under management said on Dec. 12 they would step up pressure on the world’s biggest corporate greenhouse gas emitters to combat climate change.

People around the world beset by the impacts of global warming like droughts, heat waves and storm surges are calling for “climate justice,” and many are pleading their cases in court.