The opposing voices in America's first great debate about global warming was between Thomas Jefferson and Noah Webster in 1799. Bettmann / Corbis; The Granger Collection, New York As the tumultuous ...
Foreword: Climate change and the uses of history / by Paul S. Sutter -- Introduction: Making climate change history -- Part 1. The scientific "prehistory" of global warming. "General remarks on the ...
This year’s Conference of the Parties, the annual United Nations meeting meant to avert catastrophic climate change, was ...
An error has occurred. Please try again. With a The Portland Press Herald subscription, you can gift 5 articles each month. It looks like you do not have any active ...
As Earth’s annual average temperature pushes against the 1.5 degree Celsius limit beyond which climatologists expect the impacts of global warming to intensify, social scientists warn that humanity ...
“The climate is always changing!” So goes a popular refrain from climate deniers who continue to claim that there’s nothing special about this particular moment. There is no climate crisis, they say, ...
The world remains on track to produce far more oil, gas and coal than would be consistent with relatively safe levels of heating, a new report found. By Hiroko Tabuchi In 2030, if current projections ...
Climate change is the change in Earth's climate, with humans being the primary contributor to climate change today. Global warming is an effect of climate change that is defined as the long-term rise ...
“Global warming” is not simply a catchy money-making term from Al Gore, as I recall reading somewhere recently. To the contrary, Europe’s top climate monitor, the Copernicus Climate Change Service, ...