The 1956 paper “The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climatic Change” outlined CO2’s role in altering climate. Google Books indicates usage of “climate change” predated and surpassed “global warming” since ...

It shows there is an 80% chance that at least one year between 2025 and 2029 will be warmer than the warmest year on record ...

The world seems to have avoided truly catastrophic climate scenarios, and global emissions may be about to peak. But we’re by ...

Human-caused global warming will continue to bake the Earth over the next several years, experts from the United Nations and ...

Hidden in every tenth of a degree of extra warmth are hair-trigger switches built into Earth systems that are critical for ...

Then two years ago, the group predicted the world would pass that threshold between 2030 and 2035. Now, new data from the ...

Global warming is expected to send temperatures soaring at or near record levels over the next five years, according to a ...

Earth's surface temperature has been 1.5°C hotter than the pre-industrial average for 21 of the last 22 months.

Oceans have absorbed the vast majority of the warming caused by burning fossil fuels and shielded societies from the full ...

Global methane emissions are rising at record speed, but cutting it could slow global warming faster than reducing carbon ...

If Earth stays at its current levels of warming — below policymakers’ goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius — polar ice sheets may melt ...