Climate modeling is one of the most demanding intellectual exercises humans have ever attempted. Scientists are essentially ...

While global warming is still a threat, the decision to back away from a worst-case outlook raises questions about whether ...

When major new climate change scenarios are released, there’s always strong interest. These scenarios lay out what our future climate will look like, depending on how fast we act to cut emissions. But ...

It is difficult to determine how climate change will affect the future “because how much the planet will warm depends in ...

For decades, scientists have looked to the oceans for answers about one of Earth’s biggest climate mysteries: Why did ...

Climate scientists discarded an extreme global warming model frequently cited by news outlets in April after its predictions failed to materialize for over a decade. The Intergovernmental Panel on ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Across much of the world, climate change has already shifted the timing of the year’s largest flood, with the direction of ...

Climate models have been the basis for concern about climate change for more than 35 years. The US government, the United Nations, and organizations across the world have used model projections to ...

The New York Times on Tuesday acknowledged the rollback of an extreme global warming scenario it previously used as headline ...

A U.N. panel on climate change seems poised to retire RCP 8.5, a scenario in which the world does nothing to curb planet-warming emissions, in its projections.

I have yet to speak with a person — Republican, Democrat or independent — who believed those “end of the world” predictions even remotely plausible. That is not to say, however, that those non-stop ...