Global Climate Change

The red fox is spreading northward in response to a warmer climate, scientists say. Credit: USFWS The planet is warming, humans are mostly to blame and plants and animals are going to dramatic lengths to cope. That s the consensus of a number of recent studies that used wildlife to gauge the extent of…

Changes in the greenhouse gas concentrations and other drivers alter the global climate and bring about myriad human health consequences. Environmental consequences of climate change, such as extreme heat waves, rising sea-levels, changes in precipitation resulting in flooding and droughts, intense hurricanes…

It seems to me that Roger Pielke Jr. is now persona non grata at Nate Silver’s 538 blog. Silver, whose statistics-based predictions of the last presidential election were stunningly accurate, hoped to capitalize on his celebrity by starting a blog which would present interesting and sometimes important…

In general, I would describe a ‘lukewarmer’ as someone who: As moral philosopher Alex Epstein recently put it, fossil energy companies did not take a safe climate and make it dangerous. They took a dangerous climate and made it vastly safer. For too long many in the GOP have been hoodwinked by folks…

Photo: Marigo Americans per capita emissions of heat-trapping gases is 21 tons—four times the global average and twice that of other countries with a similar standard of living to our own, such as France and Japan. That means we can all make choices that will greatly reduce our global warming impact…

Coral reef off the Florida coast. Conservationists and others who have worked with the DEP said it banned mention of ‘climate change’ and ‘global warming’. Photograph: Alamy The office of Florida’s governor, Rick Scott, and the state’s environmental protection department (DEP) have denied the state banned…

Today we are releasing results from our latest national survey, conducted in March 2015. Nearly two-thirds of the American public (63%) currently think global warming is happening, a percentage that has remained relatively stable over the past five years. Similarly, the percentage of the public who think…

We often hear that climate change is radically reshaping the Arctic, a place many of us have never visited. As a result, it can be pretty hard to feel directly affected by what’s happening up in a distant land of polar bears, ice floes and something odd called permafrost. A new booklet from the National…

Alright, we know climate change will hurt agriculture, but how, where and what farmers will it hit the hardest? This morning, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) came out with a few answers. The release from Kyoto focuses on the impacts, adaptations and vulnerability of the world population…