The commonly accepted threshold of climate “safety,” 2 degrees C [3.6 degrees F] temperature rise over pre-industrial levels, is now properly considered extremely dangerous; even 2 degrees C is ...
According to the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, 14 percent of Americans deny that climate change is occurring. Because it persists in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, ...
Editor’s Note: Amram Migdal is the Head of Knowledge at the Institute for Business in Global Society (BiGS), leading efforts to build a strong intellectual community of scholars studying the role ...
Thanks to the overwhelming weight of such evidence, the case for global warming really is firmly settled now, even without Muller’s latest contribution. But why take it on faith? You too can dig into ...
Current scenarios used to inform climate policy have a weakness in that they typically focus on reaching specific climate goals in 2100 - an approach which may encourage risky pathways that could have ...
The Paris accord’s fate was sealed a year prior to its negotiation, at the little-noticed Lima climate conference of 2014. There, diplomats abandoned their decades-long pursuit of a binding agreement ...
What does it mean to be a climate hero? Whether you are working hard to protect the environment, educating others on the importance of preserving the planet's resources, or inspiring others to create ...
CEDAR CREEK, Texas — Natural disasters are becoming more severe and more frequent. So far in 2023, 24 billion-dollar natural disasters have struck the United States, according to data from the ...
The consensus in American politics today is that there’s nothing to be gained from talking about climate change. It’s divisive, the electorate has more pressing concerns, and very little can be ...