Climate models are complex, just like the world they mirror. They simultaneously simulate the interacting, chaotic flow of ...

Climate models have been the basis for concern about climate change for more than 35 years. The US government, the United Nations, and organizations across the world have used model projections to ...

WHEN THE ECONOMIST warned in 2022 that keeping global warming to just 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels was no longer plausible, we took some flak. Critics worried that such thinking sapped the ...

Overestimated nitrogen availability has led climate models to exaggerate how much plant growth can offset rising CO2 levels. Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are a major driver of ...

Fifty years into the project of modeling Earth’s future climate, we still don’t really know what’s coming. Some places are warming with more ferocity than expected. Extreme events are taking ...

Climate change is already shaping our well-being. It affects mental health, spreads infectious diseases, disrupts work, damages food supplies and forces families to leave their homes because of ...

Roy Spencer was a Visiting Fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment. The observed rate of global warming over the past 50 years has been weaker than that ...

A new study published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences has shed light on a previously overlooked but common atmospheric phenomenon: the transition zone (TZ) where clouds and aerosols blend together ...

Andy Hogg works for ACCESS-NRI, Australia's Climate Simulator, based at the Australian National University. He receives funding for ACCESS-NRI from the Department of Education through the National ...