A new open-access tool that dramatically speeds up the evaluation of climate models has been launched by an international team of scientists. The Rapid Evaluation Framework (REF) allows researchers to ...

Rapid attribution reports generate good headlines and play into the narrative that anthropogenic climate change causes everything bad, ...

Climate models are complex, just like the world they mirror. They simultaneously simulate the interacting, chaotic flow of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans, and they run on the world’s largest ...

For reasons that are still unclear, climate models underestimate the growing gap between the amount of energy Earth receives ...

Climate science, for all its remarkable progress, still has some very unnerving blank spots. The planet is behaving in ways ...

Tiny marine plankton that build calcium carbonate shells play an outsized role in regulating Earth’s climate, quietly pulling carbon from the atmosphere and helping lock it away in the deep ocean. New ...

Scientists at Rice, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research will track water’s unique fingerprints to better understand climate systems When it comes to Earth’s climate system, water is often at ...

Climate scientists love trees, but forests are creating a massive blind spot in our predictions. From carbon sinks to ...

By the Early Oligocene Glacial Maximum, atmospheric CO2 was around 600 parts per million (ppm), after falling from roughly ...