• John Kerry visits with Chinese officials in new effort to improve climate ties

    John Kerry visits with Chinese officials in new effort to improve climate ties

    Jul 18, 2023 02:28 PM EDT

    He pointed to previous agreements on reducing the output of methane, a major contributor to global warming, as well as transitioning away from coal as a power source and addressing deforestation. “Now, I can’t tell you for sure, but you know and I know that things are changing and ...

  • House Republicans propose ambitious reforestation plan in response to climate change

    House Republicans propose ambitious reforestation plan in response to climate change

    Jul 18, 2023 01:37 PM EDT

    ... report shows The idea — simple yet massively ambitious — revealed recent Republican thinking on how to address climate change. The party is no longer denying that global warming exists, yet is searching for a response to sweltering summers, weather disasters and rising sea levels that doesn't involve abandoning their enthusiastic ...

  • California's Death Valley sizzles near record temperatures as brutal heat wave continues

    California's Death Valley sizzles near record temperatures as brutal heat wave continues

    Jul 16, 2023 09:32 PM EDT

    ... warming, such temperatures are becoming more and more likely to occur,” Ceverny, the World Meteorological Organization’s records coordinator, said in an email. “Long-term: Global warming is causing higher and more frequent temperature extremes. Short-term: This particular weekend is being driven by a very very strong upper level ...

  • WATCH: U.S. climate envoy John Kerry spars with House Republicans ahead of Beijing trip

    WATCH: U.S. climate envoy John Kerry spars with House Republicans ahead of Beijing trip

    Jul 13, 2023 09:28 PM EDT

    ... target of political hardliners. In the most heated confrontation, Republican Rep. Scott Perry accused Kerry of drumming up a “problem that doesn't exist” in global warming. When Kerry asked why the world's scientists and the 195 global governments behind the Paris climate accord would make up global warming ...

  • Northern India hit by record monsoon rains, over 100 killed

    Northern India hit by record monsoon rains, over 100 killed

    Jul 13, 2023 04:11 PM EDT

    ... most of South Asia's annual rainfall. The rains are crucial for rain-fed crops planted during the season but often cause extensive damage. Scientists say monsoons are becoming more erratic because of climate change and global warming, leading to frequent landslides and flash floods in India's Himalayan north.

  • Why extreme heat is more dangerous than many realize

    Why extreme heat is more dangerous than many realize

    Jul 11, 2023 10:42 PM EDT

    ... Some 54 million Americans are expected to see triple-digit heat this week. And in your book, you liken extreme heat to having the barrel of a gun pointed at you. Explain that. Jeff Goodell: You know, we talk a lot about heat, about global warming in our world now.

  • Average global temperature continues to break unofficial record highs

    Average global temperature continues to break unofficial record highs

    Jul 06, 2023 02:21 PM EDT

    ... La Nina, the natural cooling of the ocean that had acted as a counter, was giving way to El Nino, the reverse phenomenon marked by warming oceans. "A record like this is another piece of evidence for the now massively supported proposition that global warming is pushing us into a ...

  • The world's hottest day on record was Tuesday, scientists calculate

    The world's hottest day on record was Tuesday, scientists calculate

    Jul 05, 2023 01:35 PM EDT

    ... degree Celsius mark and then it went even higher. "A record like this is another piece of evidence for the now massively supported proposition that global warming is pushing us into a hotter future,” said Stanford University climate scientist Chris Field, who was not part of the calculations. Hotter global ...

  • The UK just had its hottest June in 139 years of records, with climate change a factor

    The UK just had its hottest June in 139 years of records, with climate change a factor

    Jul 03, 2023 06:20 PM EDT

    ... 2020 average. Other European countries including France and Spain saw similar record highs last year. Since records began over a century ago, all of the 10 annual highest temperature records in the U.K. have occurred from 2003, the scientists added, clearly demonstrating how global warming has affected British climate.

  • Montana officials minimize first-of-its-kind climate lawsuit ahead of final arguments

    Montana officials minimize first-of-its-kind climate lawsuit ahead of final arguments

    Jun 19, 2023 11:27 PM EDT

    ... change — Judith Curry with the Climate Forecast Applications Network — was not called to testify.The plaintiffs alleged Curry has cherry-picked scientific data to minimize global warming. Emily Flower, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Austin Knudsen, said the decision not to put Curry on the stand was due to “strategy ...