Global warming

John Kerry at the 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP21) in Paris. Kerry helped broker the "Paris Agreement," a global pledge to limit rising global temperatures.

26 November 2020

Climate guidance for the Biden-Harris administration

The Climate 21 Project’s guidance on ways President Biden can take immediate steps to address the climate emergency and sidestep Republican obstructionism.

There was a lot more summertime sea ice in the Arctic in 2010, when scientists pictured above were there to collect ice and water samples. With less and less summertime sea ice, the Arctic absorbs more heat from the sun, which, growing evidence suggests, is altering weather patterns worldwide.

Dwindling Arctic sea ice has far-reaching effect on global weather patterns

The worsening climate emergency has prompted millions of people to protest worldwide against governmental inaction.

2019: Year of the Climate

Unlike Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) miscalculating the consequences of his actions, there is no miscalculating the cause and effect of greenhouse gas emissions. (Source: Lucasfilm Ltd.)

Visualizing cause and effect of global warming

By definition, the Green New Deal is not inconceivable. From "The Princess Bride:" Wallace Shawn, Robin Wright, and Andre the Giant.

Feinstein yet another Democrat to consider Green New Deal inconceivable

Then-President Ronald Reagan uses a graph to highlight the alleged benefits of his supply-side economics plan, yet the upward red-shaded trend in his graph is prescient in terms of rising global temperatures

The only thing trickling down is global warming

A researcher accesses the damage at Day Reef on the Great Barrier Reef following the March 2016 mass coral bleaching event

Why a warming ocean matters

Climate activist Greta Thunberg: "You are never too small to make a difference."

Greta Thunberg, 15, scolds immature world leaders for inaction on climate policy

Sen. Bernie Sanders was the only 2016 presidential candidate to emphasize the immediacy of addressing the catastrophic threat of human-caused global warming.

Political will, leadership urgent now to stop catastrophic global warming

Rising temperatures leaves more and drier land vulnerable to wildfires, which results in more carbon released into the atmosphere.

27 August 2018

Global warming is changing the jet stream, increasing extreme weather events

The warming climate is changing the jet stream, resulting in more extreme weather events like heat waves, persistent drought conditions that increase the risk of…

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