NASA Analysis: 2021 Tied for 6th Hottest Year in Continued Warming Trend
Earth’s global average surface temperature in 2021 tied with 2018 as the sixth warmest on record, according to independent analyses done by NASA and the…
Global Warming
2021 Continued Earth’s Warming Trend: The Past 8 Years Have Been the Warmest in the Global Record
Earth’s global average surface temperature in 2021 tied 2018 as the sixth-warmest year on record, according to independent analyses from NASA and the National Oceanic…
Upper Ocean Temperatures Break Records for Sixth Year!
Accumulated heat in the upper ocean is at record levels, again! The world’s oceans are hotter than ever before, continuing their record-breaking temperature streak for…
A Dozen Things That Helped and Hurt Climate Progress in 2021
2021 may turn out to be the most critical year in our efforts to combat climate change. After four years of inaction and backpedaling by…
Antarctica’s “Doomsday” Glacier: Its Collapse Could Trigger Global Floods and Swallow Islands
The massive Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by 65cm if it were to completely collapse. And, worryingly, recent research suggests…
“Doomsday Glacier” Threat: Rapid Retreat of Antarctica’s Riskiest Glacier
Ice sheet’s demise poses the biggest threat for sea-level rise this century. Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, sometimes referred to as the Doomsday Glacier, is retreating rapidly…
Himalayan Glaciers Melting at “Exceptional Rate” – Water Supply for Millions of People Threatened
The accelerating melting of the Himalayan glaciers threatens the water supply of millions of people in Asia, new research warns. The study, led by the…
Steel or Timber? New Tools Help Builders Reduce Carbon Footprint of Truss Structures
New analysis could help identify optimal materials for the crisscrossing struts that bolster bridges, towers, and buildings. Buildings are a big contributor to global warming,…
Flawed Climate Models? Arctic Ocean Started Getting Warmer Decades Earlier Than We Thought
The Arctic Ocean has been getting warmer since the beginning of the 20th century – decades earlier than records suggest – due to warmer water…
Can the Sun’s 11-Year Cycle Explain Global Warming?
An analysis of observational data and a large climate model finds Earth’s 11-year cycle is out of sync with solar fluctuations. The Earth’s global climate…
Satellite Monitoring of Greenland Ice Melting Highlights Increasing Global Flood Risk
Global warming has caused extreme ice melting events in Greenland to become more frequent and intense over the past 40 years, raising sea levels and…
Global Temperature Reconstruction Over Last 24,000 Years Show Today’s Warming “Unprecedented”
The University of Arizona team created maps of global temperatures for each 200-year interval since the last ice age. A University of Arizona-led effort to…
Melt: Expedition to the Gorner Glacier [Documentary Video]
Glaciers across the globe have lost over nine trillion tonnes of ice in half a century. How will glaciers look over the coming decades? “It…
Increased Temperatures Contributed to More Than 200,000 Cases of Kidney Disease in 15 Years in Brazil Alone
World’s largest study of the impact of temperature changes and kidney disease reveals that 7.4 percent of all hospitalizations for renal disease can be attributed…
The Carbon Takeback: Affordable Policy That Could Stop Fossil Fuels From Causing Global Warming
Stop fossil fuels from causing global warming within a generation… The Carbon Takeback Obligation could do just that. Imagine a single policy, imposed on one industry, which…
Consensus Revisited: Do Scientists Still Believe in Anthropogenic (Human-Caused) Climate Change?
How has scientific agreement on the anthropogenic nature of climate change evolved in 10 years? Scientific support for the link between human activity and climate…
Extreme Sea Levels Will Become 100x More Frequent Along Coastlines Across the World
Global warming will cause extreme sea levels to occur almost every year by the end of the century, impacting major coastlines worldwide, according to new…
Climate Models Can’t Reproduce the Early-2000s Global Warming Slowdown – Scientists Explain Why
A recent study led by Dr. Wei and Dr. Qiao from the First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources provides an evaluation of the…