Long-term climate modelling may appear to focus on the impossibly far future. But the full impact of some climate processes won’t be apparent for centuries.
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Climate science – Analysis and Comment
Research can be spun, within hours, into a story of past failure. In fact, it’s a case of continuous improvement.
Politicians are always being told to trust what climate scientists are telling them. But can you have too much of a good thing? What happens when the exchange of ideas becomes too cosy?
The Antarctic Treaty was signed 58 years ago today, protecting the continent for peace and science.
Players in the climate science game ‘CO2peration’ become a particle of sunlight, and travel on a journey to find out why we have liquid water at Earth’s surface.
Some claim that scientists avoid publishing results that go against the consensus on man-made climate change. But this is simply untrue.
Climate scientists often bombard their audiences with facts and figures - a method of communication that often doesn’t work. Perhaps this is where cli-fi can step in, with its compelling characters and just slightly embellished science.
More and more research shows that we are likely to pass the 2 degree Celsius temperature limit much of the world has agreed on. Where did that limit come from, and what if we miss it?
The ice sheet is melting and permafrost is thawing. What’s happening in Greenland will speed up climate change across the world.
While climate denialism impedes policymaking in both the US and Australia, there are key differences in their political and public cultures.
Thirty years after the Supreme Court ruled that creationism cannot be required in schools, ‘creation science’ is still taught in some schools. What are the implications for climate education?
Why use satellites to study Earth’s climate? Researchers leading a new mission explain how images from space will help them analyze which parts of the Americas soak up the most carbon.
People worry Washington is losing respect for science and even the centuries-old scientific method. Two climate scientists explain how science can be done when talking about the future.
The sun is more powerful today than when we last had similar levels of carbon in the atmosphere.
We need international agreement on a set of Earth’s ‘vital signs’ and how to measure them.
During a Q&A discussion about climate change, Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie said it was four degrees hotter 110,000 years ago. Is that right?
One of Donald Trump’s senior advisers has recommended cutting NASA climate research because the science has become “heavily politicised”. The question is: by whom?
Climate science is now a key part of the agency’s mission.
By the time we hit that temperature, further climate changes will already be locked in and unavoidable.
The new State of the Climate report outlines Australia’s rising temperatures and its regional rainfall declines - and the trends that are locked in for the coming few decades due to greenhouse emissions.
New study changes what we know about the pre-industrial atmosphere – and how we predict future climate change.
New projections suggest the world could warm 3-7 degrees over coming centuries.
The National Park Service’s principal climate scientist explains why the parks are important laboratories for climate change research, and how climate change is altering the parks.
Will 2017 be a ‘bbq summer’? It depends on changes in the jet stream.
If we accept that 2 degrees warming is dangerous this century, we have to accept it is dangerous beyond.