Climate scientists are confronting a hard truth: some of the most widely used models are struggling to keep up with the pace and texture of real‑world warming. The physics at their core remains sound, ...
Nadir Jeevanjee works for NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, which is discussed in this article. The views expressed herein are in no sense official positions of the Geophysical Fluid ...
A new MIT Global Change Outlook finds current climate policies and economic indicators put the world on track for dangerous ...
New analysis suggests the planet may be more sensitive to greenhouse gases than many models assume, meaning temperatures could rise faster and bring ...
If you’re wondering why Arctic temperatures are rising so much faster than predicted, scientists at Kyushu University think they’ve found an answer: it’s in the clouds. In a study published in ...
The Arctic is one of the coldest places on Earth, but in recent decades, the region has been rapidly warming, at a rate three to four times faster than the global average. However, current climate ...
The point of the previous item about how scientists think about public policy, which referred to Richard Muller's book Physics for Future Presidents, was that many scientific issues are too complex to ...
Despite rapid progress in clean energy and electric vehicles, the world is still warming faster than ever. The good news is that we already have powerful ways to reduce the warming rate – if ...
Actuaries are warning policymakers, pension schemes and financial institutions that global temperatures rises are ...
The UN has warned that terms like "water crisis" no longer cut it, and that we are now in a post-crisis era.