A new study might have discovered the reason behind the unexpected level of global temperature rise that was recorded over the course of 2023: a decrease in cloud cover, especially over the ocean, has been allowing more sunlight to reach the surface, contributing a fifth of a degree Celsius (0.36°F)read more
Continued warnings that a key glacier in West Antarctica is at serious risk of collapse has prompted a debate over using geoengineering as a way of slowing the ice sheet’s rate of melt, using artificial barriers to shield the vulnerable ice shelf from warm water that is eroding it from below: would suchread more
When I heard Kamala Harris say that she was going to address high food prices with price controls, I thought that she could lose the election. The reason was that food prices are the central issue, and this did not sound convincing. Donald Trump promised lower taxes and thus higherread more
A global warming-triggered collapse of the North Atlantic current “would have devastating and irreversible impacts” to the global climate, according to an open letter sent to Nordic policymakers by forty-four of the world’s leading climate scientists, with the more immediate effect of plunging northwestern Europe—especially Scandinavian countries—into an irreversible deepread more