The writer Malcolm Gladwell popularized the term "tipping points" to refer to the moment when a trend or social behavior ...
Decades of independent observations and improved methods strengthen the evidence that greenhouse gases are changing Earth’s ...
Scientists and policymakers use scenarios called Shared Socioeconomic Pathways to project how today’s choices affect tomorrow ...
Satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Melissa churning northwest through the Caribbean Sea. The Category 5 hurricane is a recent example of ...
Property insurance used to lean heavily on the past. If a neighborhood hadn't flooded in decades, it was priced as though it ...
THE DIPLOMATIC ructions at COP29, the United Nations climate conference currently under way in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku, are based largely on computer models. Some model what climate change ...
Climate models are complex, just like the world they mirror. They simultaneously simulate the interacting, chaotic flow of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans, and they run on the world’s largest ...
New UCLA research finds that airborne dust traps about twice as much heat as climate models have estimated, even though dust likely cools the planet overall. The effect of dust retaining heat is equal ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dianne Plummer is an Energy Consultant and Certified Energy Manager. Climate change as defined by the United Nations refers to ...
Climate change is already shaping our wellbeing. It affects mental health, spreads infectious diseases, disrupts work, damages food supplies and forces families to leave their homes because of ...