Global warming

Greta Thunberg's The Climate Book. The U.K. edition (left) was released in October and the U.S. edition will be released Feb. 14, 2023, and is available for presale. The U.K. edition can be purchased and shipped to the U.S. from Blackwell's books.

22 January 2023

Thunberg’s ‘Climate Book’ is a road map to a better future

The Climate Book is an easy-reading exploration of how we got here, where things are headed, and ways toward a just transition away from the continued destructive use of fossil fuels.

Oil and gas companies were the worst of all sectors for underreporting emissions, according to former U.S. Vice President Al Gore. (Photo: fotorince - stock.adobe.com)

Oil and gas greenhouse emissions ‘three times higher’ than producers claim

No, the good cop/bad cop Hollywood trope has nothing to do with the climate emergency, but this year's intergovernmental gathering on climate change, COP 27, may finally result in meaningful change. Pictured above, Russell Crowe restrains Guy Pearce in L.A. Confidential.

Good COP, bad COP — but not the Hollywood trope

Researchers have newly estimated how Earth's global mean surface temperature (GMST) will continue rising, albeit relatively briefly, even if all greenhouse gas emissions suddenly stop. The graph's thick dashed line represents the expected extra 0.2 degrees Celsius rise in GMST, followed by a sharp decline, indicating even more cooling with the cessation of all GHG emissions. Previous research focused only on carbon dioxide emissions (dotted line). The orange line reflects a rising GMST if emissions continue under a moderate business-as-usual scenario.

More global heating ‘baked in’ than previously thought, but so is more cooling, new research finds

Block Island Wind Farm is the first commercial offshore wind farm in the United States, located 6.1 km (3.8 miles) from Block Island, Rhode Island, in the Atlantic Ocean.

How the new climate bill will shift U.S. climate policy

In a scene from the docuseries "Meltdown: Three Mile Island," CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite reports on the pending nuclear disaster in central Pennsylvania that came shockingly close to a "China syndrome" meltdown, and required a 14-year clean-up operation.

Is nuclear power safe enough to be part of our non-carbon future?

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Prof. Michael Mann

Political will all we need to avert climate catastrophe, say Mann, Whitehouse

Tropical forests create year-round cooling, and collectively all forests keep Earth about 0.5 degrees Celsius cooler, according to new research.

Forests cool the planet as well as store carbon, new research finds

The nine members of the U.S. Supreme Court, Feb. 27, 2022

Climate-related regulation at risk as Supreme Court considers case lacking facts

Rising global temperatures could stabilize within 3- to 5-years if greenhouse gas emissions stopped now (dark blue line at 0.00 highlighted area above), contrary to decades of continued warming, which was previously believed.

20 February 2022

New paradigm clarifies how global temperatures can stop rising within years, not decades

The gloom-and-doom scenario Earth will continue warming for decades even if we immediately stop emitting greenhouse gas emissions is wrong, …according to research highlighted in…

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