The authors of this paper investigate the extent to which current changes in food insecurity can be plausibly attributed to climate change. They combine food insecurity data for 83 countries from the FAO food insecurity experience scale (FIES) with reanalysed climate data from ERA5-Land, and use a panel data regression with time-varying coefficients. Read more
Economic production goes up at the end of the year – and it’s not just because of Christmas. Christmas spending booms... Read more
Commenting on the publication today (15 January 2019) by the World Meteorological Organization of the estimated global mean surface temperature... Read more
Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London... Read more
Responding to the publication today (16 January 2015) by the NASA Goddard institute for Space Studies and the National Climatic... Read more
Commenting on the Met Office's announcement that 2010 was the second warmest year since records began in 1850, Bob Ward said: "...climate change 'sceptics' may still try to claim that global warming stopped in 1998, but they cannot explain away the fact that nine of the ten warmest years on record have all occurred since 2000." Read more
