Cold winters don't mean there's no global warming. Atmospheric science professor Dan Chavas at Purdue University in Indiana says these arguments don't frustrate him because they're a chance to engage.

So the memory of global warming is mainly in the oceans. On average the air above the oceans is warmer by more than 1°F and moister by 5% since the 1970s from global warming.

New research spotlights the challenge of growing food on a warming planet. Two recent studies — one historical and the other ...

Global warming is a familiar term, so we feel justified in using it as a more concrete, but less complete, expression of the phenomenon. There is some interesting lore around the term "climate ...

Yale found 70 percent who say “global warming is happening,” an increase of 13 points, and 54 percent who say it’s caused by human activity, up 8 points since 2010.

Even best-case levels of global warming would mean 'catastrophic' sea level rise, study says “There’s very little that we’re observing that gives us hope here,” one study author said.

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According to the last IPCC report published in March, global surface temperature warming reached 1.1 C in the decade of 2011-2020, with a 1.59 C warming over the land and 0.88 C over the ocean.

Many people think the rate of global warming has dramatically accelerated or 'surged' over the past 15 years – and is a cause of more extreme weather.. But a new study says there is not any ...

The intensity and frequency of extreme rainfall increases exponentially with global warming, a new study finds. The analysis shows that state-of-the-art climate models significantly underestimate ...

In the 2015 Paris Agreement, most countries agreed to try hard to limit global warming to below 1.5 degrees Celsius. Delay and inaction mean that goal is becoming harder to achieve by the day.