What's the Point of the IPCC's New Climate Report?
Even as some observers were struck by the dire forecast, many others say that this is nothing new—and that national leaders will ignore it anyway.
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The New IPCC Report Offers Climate Solutions That Depend on Magic
To solve the crisis, we'd have to slow growth. And no one wants to admit that.
What to Expect From the U.N.'s Big New Climate Report
The United Nations' highly anticipated climate science report is due out Monday, and it's unlikely to bring good news.
Fixing Sexism at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
A sexist remark at a recent meeting prompted some soul-searching among the world's top climate scientists. How can they prevent women's expertise from being excluded?
Why the IPCC's New Focus on Mountain Climate Change Is a Big Deal
Better science coordination will help mountain communities prepare for global warming.
What Is Happening in Paris, and What Do All These Acronyms Mean?
At COP21, the UNFCCC will take the findings of the IPCC, assess the INDCs of 195 signatory countries, and help LDCs limit their GHGs. Here is what all of that means.
Who Can Understand This Climate Change Report?
A new analysis suggests IPCC summaries aimed specifically at policymakers are harder than ever to digest.
How Much of an Increase in Temperature Can We Tolerate?
An IPCC author assails the current two-degree target as scientifically bankrupt and geographically biased.
How the News Covers Climate Change, and Why It Matters
Scientists review news coverage of three IPCC reports, revealing common media narratives—and an unfocused media strategy on the part of the IPCC.
Speaking of Climate Change: Time to Agree on a Language of Defeat?
We should continue to fight for new building codes and oppose the construction of new oil pipelines—and more ambitious projects still—but only because they offer hope and aspiration in the midst of despair, not because they will actually help at this point.
Climate Optimist Revisits Failures of His 'Wedges' Paper
Robert Socolow, the co-author of an influential plan to reduce carbon emissions, revisits his work seven years later to understand why it failed.
Putting Climate Researchers Under the Microscope
Scientists who argue for human-caused climate change published twice as many papers and are cited 64 percent more often than researchers who doubt climate change.
Your Local Weather Forecaster Could Be a Climate Change Cynic
Despite the weight of scientific evidence, many TV meteorologists are global warming skeptics, survey shows
The Dirt on Climate Change
Could soil engineered specifically to maximize carbon storage dampen some effects of climate change? Very possibly.
Quailing Before the Messy Business of Science
The perception that a veneer of certainty must reign over all levels of climate change has led proponents to come a cropper.
Let's Just Rejigger the Globe To Cool It Off
Serious scientists are mulling geoengineering — from space sunshades to planetwide aerosols — as reduced-sacrifice methods to address global warming.
Climate Models Get Biological Makeover
While the ultimate concern over climate change centers on how it affects living things, in the past, modelers have focused on the physics and chemistry of climate change. Now they are including biology.
Lessons From the Reverse Engineering of Nature
A Miller-McCune Research Essay by Columbia University professor Shahid Naeem on the importance of biodiversity and the true significance of the human species.
Riddles of an Acerbic Sea
Aside from global climate change, carbon dioxide emissions are contributing to another equally disturbing global problem: Ocean acidification — and its potential effects on marine ecosystems, especially coral reefs — has biologists very concerned.
Public Opinion's Climate-Change Ping-Pong
Americans seem to be of two minds on the reality of climate change, and which mind is ahead depends on when you ask.
Carbon Capture the Economical Approach to Climate Change?
University of Colorado's Roger Pielke Jr. “air capture” — direct removal of carbon dioxide from the air — deserves far more serious consideration than it has received to date.
The Doubt Makers
By funding its own research, industry has raised unwarranted doubts about a range of scientific issues — from the risks of tobacco to the reality of climate change — delaying response to public dangers for decades. Can scientists and journalists learn to beat the doubt industry before our most serious problems beat us all?
More Global Warming Worries
Reducing global carbon dioxide emissions will be an even more daunting challenge than we have been led to believe, according to a sobering commentary in the April 3 issue of Nature magazine.
More Bad News on Global Warming
As Americans argue about how to tackle the issue of climate change, the astonishingly rapid industrialization of China is threatening to negate whatever progress we might achieve in reducing greenhouse gases. According to a new analysis by economists at two University of California campuses, China's carbon dioxide emissions are growing at a far faster pace than previously estimated -- and earlier estimates were worrying.