Published: Monday, June 6, 2011 - 11:36 in Earth & Climate The tropics and much of the Northern Hemisphere are likely to experience an irreversible rise in summer temperatures within the next 20 to 60 years if atmospheric greenhouse gas concentra...

Published: Monday, May 30, 2011 - 15:50 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) William D'Andrea, Brown University The end of the Norse settlements on Greenland likely will remain shrouded in mystery. While there is scant written ...

Climate scientists have come together to remind those who dispute climate change that the skeptics are not climate scientists. In this video (clean version), the climate scientists rap speak for themselves. Who's a climate scientist? Watch the vide...

The Washington Post has a story today, Floods along the Mississippi River lead to renewed calls for a change in strategy, detailing the various ways that governments are coping with increased flooding. But the discussion shouldn't just be limited to te...

by William S. Becker Last February, three Republican leaders in Congress filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that when it comes to global climate change, judges and Justices should mind their own business. The courts are about to get a di...

(Weizmann Institute of Science) A new source of climate records is as close as the nearest university library: Back issues of magazines reveal the rise in atmospheric CO2 from burning fossil fuels.

BOULDER—The magnitude of climate change during Earth’s deep past suggests that future temperatures may eventually rise far more than projected if society continues its pace of emitting greenhouse gases, a new analysis concludes. The study, by Na...

1. Climate Change -- the scientific debate A basic look at how climate scientists infer that man-made carbon gases are changing the climate, and how this view is contradicted by other climate scientists who are skeptics. I am a former science corres...