Over last three centuries we've lost forest 1.5-times the size of the USA.
Deforestation peaked in the 1980s – in that decade we lost an area half the size of India.
It has fallen since, but we've got work to do to bring it to an end.
My latest article: https://t.co/pL5791udD5
Températures caniculaires : "On est certain que c'est dû au changement climatique", affirme le directeur de l’Institut des sciences du climat https://t.co/RrKHagxdfK via @franceinfo
After four years of work by 25 researchers, we've been able to narrow the range of future climate change. We find that equilibrium climate sensitivity is likely between 2.6C and 4.1C per doubling of CO2, compared to 1.5C to 4.5C in the last IPCC report https://t.co/lpG02X9IT0 1/
1/3 The recent "20°C" record on Feb 8-10 over the Antarctic Peninsula was mainly due to a high pressure ridge centred over the Cap Horn allowing extra-tropical warm air mass to cross the Antarctic Ocean and to reach the ice sheet.