People quickly normalize extreme weather. Simple visuals highlighting abrupt change could help climate change break through ...
Everything depends on what people and their government do,” Somerville writes, not once, not twice, but (if I count correctly) seven times.
There is something humbling about realizing that the most urgent climate questions we wrestle with today were, in many ways, already being answered decades ago. Scientists, policymakers, and ordinary ...
Click the downloadable graphic: What is attribution science? Humans have increased Earth’s temperature, mainly by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and methane gas. The resulting heat-trapping ...
The Earth is actually coming out of an ice age, so it's relatively cold in the grand scheme of Earth's history. But the issue ...
Climate change can be explained by six simple facts: It’s real! It’s us! Experts agree! It’s bad! Others care! There’s hope! Present day climate change denial instead targets the remaining three facts ...
Science is nuanced. This basic truth certainly holds for the field of atmospheric science, where the complexities of the airy environment are investigated. The climate science subdiscipline explores ...
The Earth’s atmosphere is nothing but freely roaming molecules. Left alone, they would drift and collide, and eventually even out into a mixture that’s dynamic, yet stable and broadly unchanging. The ...
A potted scarlet monkeyflower would die within a few days without water. But multiple natural populations of the species ...
For nearly four decades, scientists with a reputational and financial stake in the game and compliant, uninquisitive mainstream media have told the public one thing consistently about climate change: ...