Latest in Nobel Peace PrizeThe world has not yet reached the point of no return on climate change, but the window for meaningful action is narrowing with every passing year, Filipino physicist and Manila Observatory Executive Director Fr. Jose Ramon “Jett” Villarin said Saturday, offering a message of cautious hope nearly…
The world is likely to exceed the 1.5 degree Celsius global warming threshold by 2050 under a business-as-usual scenario, a Filipino climate scientist and member of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned Saturday, stressing that what was once theoretical…
Manila Observatory Executive Director Fr. Jose Ramon “Jett” Villarin used a body-temperature analogy to explain the urgency of global warming, comparing the Earth’s current 1.1 to 1.2 degree Celsius temperature rise to a person running a low-grade fever—one that could escalate to…
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