Tag: greenhouse gases

Greenhouse gas, sea levels at record in 2021: US agency

  WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Earth’s concentration of greenhouse gases and sea levels hit new highs in 2021, a US government report said Wednesday, showing that climate change keeps surging ahead despite efforts to curb emissions. “The data presented in this report are clear — we continue to see more compelling scientific evidence that climate change has global impacts and shows no sign of slowing,” said Rick Spinrad, administrator of the National Oceanic and […]

Greenhouse gas levels in atmosphere hit new high: UN

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the main driver of climate change, have hit a new record high, the UN said Thursday, warning that the time to act was running out. “Without rapid cuts in CO2 and other greenhouse gases, climate change will have increasingly destructive and irreversible impacts on life on Earth,” the head of the World Meteorological Organization Petteri Taalas said in a statement. “The window of […]

Duterte: Paris Agreement “could be a farce” if “industrialized nations” do not comply

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday, May 9, said the Paris Agreement could turn out to be a “farce.” “(This) could be a farce if we cannot compel the other nations especially the industrialized nations to follow,” the President said after the presentation of New Generation Coins in Malacanang. While Duterte welcomed the limits to carbon footprints being imposed in the agreement signed by 194 countries, including those from the European Union and […]

Reso on Paris Agreement approved on final reading in Senate

(Eagle News) — Senators on Tuesday posed no objections to the ratification of the Paris Agreement, with all 22 senators present concurring. “I wish to express my heartfelt thanks to my colleagues’ unanimous support on this historic day of the Senate’s concurrence in the accession to the Paris Agreement,” Senator Loren Legarda, chair of the Senate committee on climate change, said. She said the country’s accession to the Paris Agreement “strengthens its role in climate […]

Legarda: ‘It’s a great day for climate warriors’

(Eagle News) — Senator Loren Legarda hailed on Wednesday President Rodrigo Duterte’s signing of the Paris Agreement, calling the day of his signing “a great day for..climate warriors.” Legarda, chair of the Senate Committee on Climate Change, made the statement a day after Duterte signed the Paris Agreement on Climate Change that compels ratifying countries to take steps to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and to limit the temperature increase […]

Highest temperatures in the world recorded this year – UN

UN description: NEW York City, United States of America – According to the World Meteorological Organization, the hottest temperatures in the world were recorded in the months of January and February 2016. WMO is alarmed because said increase in temperature is not normal and that this is definitely the effect of greenhouse gases. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)

CO2 surge drove greenhouse gas levels to new high in 2013, World Meteorological Organization says

(Reuters) — Atmospheric volumes of greenhouse hit a record in 2013 as carbon dioxide concentrations grew at the fastest rate since reliable global records began, the World Meteorological Organization said on Tuesday (September 9). The volume of carbon dioxide, or CO2, the primary greenhouse gas emitted by human activities, was 396.0 parts per million (ppm) in 2013, 2.9 ppm higher than in 2012, the largest year-to-year increase since 1984, when reliable global records began. The second […]