Extreme climate impacts on people and the environment are often associated with very high levels of global warming (3 or 4°C) ...

New research suggests devastating climate outcomes that are typically associated with extreme global warming could hit even ...

As a grueling March heat wave batters the U.S. West with dangerous temperatures, and the world girds itself for what could be another sizzling record-smashing Super El Niño, a team of researchers has ...

Climate models reveal that certain 3.6°F warming scenarios can produce more severe impacts than average projections at higher temperatures.

A new study finds that if global warming exceeds the Paris Climate Agreement targets, the non-polar glacier mass will diminish significantly. However, if warming is limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius, at ...

Nadir Jeevanjee works for NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, which is discussed in this article. The views expressed herein are in no sense official positions of the Geophysical Fluid ...

Global warming has picked up speed in the past decade, according to a new analysis from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). By removing short term natural influences such as El ...

Severe droughts and intense rainfall, usually seen with higher global warming, may happen even with a 2 degrees Celsius rise. This threatens food production, forests, and cities. Current policies ...

Current global climate models (GCMs) support with high confidence the view that rising greenhouse gases and other anthropogenic forcings account for nearly all observed global surface warming—slightly ...

Attribution researches the influence of climate change on local weather and impacts. We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable extreme weather event around ...