Piers Forster

Nov 14, 2024 | theconversation.com | Andrew Jarvis |Piers Forster

Human-caused global warming has just nudged past 1.5°C, according to a new method we have developed. That’s approaching 0.2°C higher than previously thought. But this does not mean the goal of keeping warming below 1.5°C is dead, as the Paris agreement and the UN climate summits are based on different methodology.

Nov 13, 2024 | allianceforscience.org | Piers Forster

The latest scientific assessment by an international team of climate scientists shows how human activity is warming the world more rapidly than ever before, and we are now perilously close to the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C guardrail. This evidence underscores the need for decisive climate action at the UN’s climate summit, COP29, through a collective global effort despite complex and fragile geopolitical circumstances.

Nov 8, 2024 | theconversation.com | Piers Forster

The latest scientific assessment by an international team of climate scientists that I lead shows how human activity is warming the world more rapidly than ever before, and we are now perilously close to the Paris agreement’s 1.5°C guardrail. This evidence underscores the need for decisive climate action at the UN’s upcoming climate summit, Cop29, through a collective global effort despite complex and fragile geopolitical circumstances.

Oct 1, 2024 | linkedin.com | Piers Forster

Ferranti's alternating dynamo, Deptford power station 1895, Graces Guide to British Industrial History The end of coal power should be the start of a true electrical age Piers Forster Piers Forster Interim Chair, UK Climate Change Committee; Director, Priestley Centre for Climate Futures Published Oct 1, 2024 As a young 24 year-old engineer my great grandfather designed and built the world’s first high voltage coal power station, opening in Deptford in 1889. Now, 133 years later, myself, a...

Jan 5, 2024 | worldfinancialreview.com | Piers Forster

By Piers ForsterAs the latest UN climate change summit (COP28) gets underway in Dubai, conversations around limiting global warming to 1.5°C will confront a harsh reality. Global temperatures have surged over the past year, with the monthly global average surpassing 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels during the summer. Some days in November have even breached 2°C of warming for the first time.