The planet is warming.While the Earth has been heating up for the past century on average, rising temperatures have been especially pronounced since about 1970. The most recent decade, for example, is the warmest since thermometers were widely deployed in the late 1800s.These are facts. But documenting this warming trend does not necessarily tell us […]
Bill Nye and Climate Science - School Fails
Thousands of people are expected to attend this weekend's People's Climate Movement march. It's a good moment to reflect on the facts—what we know about climate change today, and what impacts we can expect in the future.
Jill Lepore on how arguments about nuclear weapons shaped the debate over global warming.
“There’s this treasure trove of information just sitting there that’s never really been very well mined, because in the past it’s been so complex to run computations against it,” explains Stephen Del Greco, chief of the Data Access Division at the National Centers for Environmental Information. A component of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,…
It only took a decade, but climate change was front and center again in Washington as NOAA declared 2018 the fourth-hottest year on record.
Kerry probably should have stopped with “physics can be tough.”
Editor’s Note: This release was updated on Aug. 8 to update the description for the BeaverCube small satellite.
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Climate Science Meets a Stubborn Obstacle: Students - The New York Times
Students use interactives to explore the question, "What is the future of Earth's climate?"
Browse over 40 educational resources created by Dancing Scientist in the official Teachers Pay Teachers store.
Local TV weathercasters, once climate change skeptics, have become one of the primary conduits for news on global warming. One nonprofit helped push the change.
COMMENT: We have got used to vast IPCC reports, but in the coming years tailored studies focused on land, cities and the 1.5C warming ceiling may be more useful to policy makers
This is an opinion piece glancing at Australia's long-held position in research and monitoring of the Earth, and how it is changing. It touches on the role of government in deciding the importance of research, the allocation of funds, and continuing to use resources for monitoring.
Our newest study highlights the importance of climate conversations with friends and family, which can engage people more deeply in the issue of climate change.
American Eunice Foote was an amateur scientist and women's rights pioneer from the mid-1800s whose experiments foreshadowed the discovery of Earth's greenhouse effect.
