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The claim: The term 'global warming' was switched to 'climate change' because the Earth wasn’t getting any hotter. A Dec. 24 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) features a screenshot of a ...
Two terms – climate change and global warming – point to the same existential threat: Global temperatures have risen dramatically in about the past 150 years and scientists say they're on pace ...
World is on brink of catastrophic warming, U.N. climate change report says A dangerous climate threshold is near, but ‘it does not mean we are doomed’ if swift action is taken, scientists say ...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has defined global warming as "an increase in combined surface air and ...
Global Warming of 1.5°C: IPCC Special Report on Impacts of Global Warming of 1.5°C above Pre-Industrial Levels in Context of Strengthening Response to Climate Change, Sustainable Development ...
The damage climate change will inflict on the world's economy is likely to have been massively underestimated, according to new research by my colleagues and me, which accounts for the full global ...
Scientists may have underestimated global warming's severity. Here's how The algae that grows on patches of ice in Antarctica alters the albedo — or the ice's reflectivity — enough to make the ...
Governments and U.S. states committed to climate action now need to persuade the oil industry to protect the world from ...
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.
It turns out that Americans are more familiar with—and more concerned about— climate change and global warming than they are about climate crisis, climate emergency or climate justice ...
It might seem counterintuitive to talk about global warming during a winter cold snap, but I think it's actually the perfect time to do it, especially considering how unusually warm the past two ...
The sun may influence Earth's climate, but it is not causing climate change. The sun may be the key to all life on Earth, but it is not the reason global temperatures have been rapidly rising in ...