global climate

Scientists have produced additional evidence confirming that greenhouse gas emissions by humans are the primary force driving global warming.

Delegates at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Durban ended negotiations last week with a new climate deal, committing countries to negotiating a new climate treaty by 2015.

New studies both confirm global warming and warn there is little time left to keep warming below 2˚C from pre-industrial levels, the target needed to avert dangerous climate change. Berkeley Earth has submitted four papers for peer review that confirm the amount of warming determined by earlier studies.

In a September 7 press conference, experts from the nonprofit Climate Communication project discussed the connection between global extreme weather and climate change. In recent decades, as the climate has warmed, extreme weather has become more frequent. This extreme weather (which the U.S.

Authors of a recent article in Climatic Change determined how a 1.2˚C global-mean temperature increase relative to present would affect the frequency of temperature extremes in the future.