Even some climate change scientists who sit on the IPCC think the organisation needs a rethink.
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When bad weather stops moving, the outlook can get dire for the areas in its path.
An author of the report explains the damaging effects climate change is already having and why adaptation is essential.
Spoiler: lots more floods.
Climate models from the 1970s and 80s stand up incredibly well when compared with actual warming trends.
This increases the risk of disastrous flash flooding in the region’s coastal cities.
Scientists experience diverse, complex, and often contrasting emotions about the fate of the planet.
We simulated the desert planet to find out.
Some Arctic regions will see more rain than snow decades earlier than previously thought, say scientists.
Yes COP26 fell short, but we still have reasonable odds of limiting global warming to 2°C.
Clouds are central players in climate change, and ‘Path 99’ reveals them in a new light using data discarded by scientists.
Many scientists now think 3°C of warming is likely.
What climate changes in the distant past can tell us about the near future.
Is Dune scientifically plausible? We ran a climate model to find out.
A 1967 study by Nobel-winner Syukuro Manabe changed climate science forever
Modern climate and weather models can predict what the weather will be next week and what the climate may be in 100 years. They would not exist without Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi.
Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann have won the Nobel prize in physics for their climate modelling research.
Rapid attribution studies reveal climate change’s influence on the weather, but they’re expensive and time-consuming.
A new attribution study finds human-caused climate change made Europe’s July floods more likely. What about Tennessee’s flooding? An atmospheric scientist explains how scientists make the connection.
IPCC reports are often used as legal tool for bringing the powerful to account. And the more Australia’s governments and businesses lag on climate change, the more litigation we’re likely to see.
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