The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study aims to contribute to a clearer understanding of global warming based on a more…
In this post, Joe Romm summarizes what the recent scientific literature…
A new report by the U.S. Energy Information Agency predicts that worldwide energy consumption will surge 53 percent between 2008 and…
NOAA: The globe had its eighth warmest August since record keeping began in 1880, while June through August was the…
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Alerting message from the Arctic: The extent the the Arctic sea ice has reached on Sep. 8…
There has been a 0.5°F (0.25°C) rise in average 1980-2010 temperatures compared to the 1971-2000 period in the US, according…
Climate scientists agree that the existing gap between climate science and climate policy is profound. If the international community –…
The Statistical Review has evolved in response to changes in the world’s energy mix, as well as the increasingly global markets…
Several large-scale climate patterns influenced climate conditions and weather patterns across the globe during 2010. The transition from a warm…
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It’s been more than 300 months since the average global average temperature…
Global Warming Effects Around the World
The Union of Concerned Scientists has created this Google Map to show…
The IEA sets the record straight on energy-related misperceptions
Myth: We could end dependence on oil with electric vehicles within a…
Attention should turn to nitrous oxide if climate change is to be properly addressed, according to a Brisbane-based member of…
YouTube: an op-ed by Bill McKibben, author and founder of 350.org, narrated and illustrated by Stephen Thomson of Plomomedia.com
Bill McKibben…
In the past year, the world has seen a large number of extreme weather events, from the Russian heat wave…
Over many decades thousands of scientists have painted an unambiguous picture: the global climate is changing and humanity is almost…
BEIJING, April 20 (Reuters) – Gradually rising sea levels caused by global warming over the past 30 years have contributed…
James Hansen has posted a new 52-page draft paper entitled “Earth’s Energy Imbalance and Implications.”
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The World Bank eAtlas of Global Development maps and graphs more than 175 thematically organized indicators for over 200 countries,…
Australian scientists have reported the first known detrimental impact of southern hemisphere ocean warming on a fish species.
The findings of…
The coastline in Arctic regions reacts to climate change with increased erosion…
The failure of the October to December 2010 rains in the Eastern Horn of Africa has left nearly 8.4 million…
Russia’s boreal forest — the largest continuous expanse of forest in the world, found in the country’s cold northern regions…
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1. Since the 1950s, spring has been starting earlier in the western U.S.. The onset of spring now starts,…
Floods, earthquakes, landslides: 2011 is a year of disasters. Bill McKibben asks: are we to blame? Plus, survivors tell their…
As part of a post on the WWF US Climate Blog, meteorologist Dave Eichorn from the State University of New…
In one sense, it’s a simple matter of supply and demand. Bad weather, poor crop yields,…
Ice is melting at accelerating rates in the Arctic, Antarctica, Greenland, and glaciers all over the world. Arctic summer sea…
Over the past year, the world has witnessed weather events on four continents so extreme that they stretch the limits…
Can, and how would, we live in a world 4 degrees Celsius warmer?” is no longer an abstract question, but…
The United Nations’ food agency issued an alert on Tuesday warning that a severe drought was threatening the wheat crop…
The troubling story of how a cadre of influential scientists have clouded public understanding of scientific facts to advance a…
On pure emissions alone, the key points are:
• China emits more CO2 than the US and Canada put together –…
It is hard to argue that anything above the Holocene maximum (of around 0.5 degrees above the pre-industrial temperature) can…
The increased frequency of drought observed in eastern Africa over the last 20 years is likely to continue as long…
EPI: We are facing issues of near-overwhelming complexity and unprecedented urgency. Can we think systemically and fashion policies accordingly? Can…
Arctic sea ice extent averaged over December 2010 was 12.00 million square kilometers (4.63 million square miles). This is the…
Anyone reading the news about recent extreme weather events may understandably be confused by the varied statements regarding the attribution…
This year’s particularly rainy summer in Australia has been caused in large part by La Niña conditions…
According to NOAA scientists, 2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest year of the global surface temperature record, beginning in…
Carbon dioxide already emitted into the atmosphere will keep contributing to global warming for centuries, eventually causing a huge Antarctic…
Scientists have found evidence of a “drastic” shift since the 1970s in north Atlantic Ocean currents that usually influence weather…
Several major catastrophes in 2010 resulted in substantial losses and an exceptionally high number of fatalities. The overall picture last…
Second prize: Kyaw Thar
Photograph: UNCCD Photo Contest 2009
The UNCCD international photo contest 2009 is part of a global effort to raise awareness…
Temp Anomaly 1880 -1889
The world is getting warmer. Whether the cause is human activity or natural variability—and the preponderance of…
The Climate Vulnerability Monitor is a new tool built to assess the vulnerability of our world to the many effects…
Cancún, 03.12.10: With the today published Climate Risk Index 2011 in Cancun, Germanwatch has, for the sixth time, examined which…
The year 2010 is almost certain to rank among the three warmest years since the beginning of instrumental climate records…
