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A BBC weather forecast for the year 2050 shows that summer temperatures of 38 °C for the UK are "par for the course". The probable range by which the planet will warm over the next century is between 1.4 °C and 5.8 °C. Or, says Attenborough, "to put it another way, the impact of global warming will be somewhere between severe and catastrophic."
Publicity has surrounded claims of a global warming hiatus during the period 1998–2013. The exceptionally warm El Niño year of 1998 was an outlier from the continuing temperature trend, and so subsequent annual temperatures gave the appearance of a hiatus: by January 2006, it appeared to some that global warming had stopped or paused. [2]
The Great Warming: Global warming: politics of global warming, Climate change mitigation, Climate change policy of the United States: Michael Taylor 2006 Greenpeace : les commandos de l'écologie: Greenpeace: Jean-Pierre Hosatte 1995 Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World: General environment of Haida Gwaii, Rising sea level, natural disaster ...
In 2012, Drayson Racing introduced the Lola B12 69/E: a modified a Lola prototype chassis, [9] [10] [11] and set a world record for electric cars in 2013. [12] In 2019, ACO has announced Mission H24 to bring hydrogen-powered racing car to 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2024. [13] The Volkswagen I.D. R has set various records from 2018 to 2020.
Don Cheadle reports on the severe droughts in the Southwest United States, following scientist and devout Christian, Katharine Hayhoe, as she speaks to religious audiences about the connection between extreme weather and climate change; Harrison Ford visits Indonesia to learn how slash-and-burn deforestation, driven by the global appetite for products like palm oil and paper, contributes a ...
Earth 2100 is a television program and a Science fiction documentary film that was presented by ABC on June 2, 2009, aired on the History Channel in January 2010, and was shown throughout the year. The two-hour special, which Bob Woodruff hosted, looked at what "a worst-case" future might entail if people do nothing about current or impending ...
The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2016, and was released theatrically on October 21, before airing on the National Geographic Channel on October 30. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] As part of National Geographic's commitment to covering climate change, the documentary was made widely available and free of charge on various ...
By March, Volvo Cars announced that by 2030 it "intends to only sell fully electric cars and phase out any car in its global portfolio with an internal combustion engine, including hybrids". [171] In April 2021, Honda announced that it will stop selling gas-powered vehicles by 2040. [ 172 ]