Fifty years into the project of modeling Earth’s future climate, we still don’t really know what’s coming. Some places are warming with more ferocity than expected. Extreme events are taking ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Climate models are complex, just like the world they ...

Combined insights from 10 models of the worldwide climate suggest that temperatures are rising faster than previously expected. The alarming finding, published today in Environmental Research Letters, ...

Rising sea levels, melting glaciers, heatwaves at sea -- 2023 set a number of alarming new records. The global mean temperature also rose to nearly 1.5 degrees above the preindustrial level, another ...

In a study published today in Science, researchers say they have solved a climate enigma — the inexplicable surge in global temperature in 2023, rising faster than climate models predicted. By ...

A single degree might seem insignificant, but it’s the difference between stability and chaos.Since the 1970s, water in the Gulf of Mexico has increased by about one degree Celsius. While this may ...

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 ...

WHEN THE ECONOMIST warned in 2022 that keeping global warming to just 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels was no longer plausible, we took some flak. Critics worried that such thinking sapped the ...

At the peak of the last ice age, the air was so cold and dry that it barely snowed. Sea level was 300 ft lower than today because the water was trapped in the thick sheets of ice that covered the ...