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Satellite data suggests cloud darkening is responsible for much of the warming since 2001, and the good news is that it is a ...
Global warming has picked up pace since around 2010, leading to the recent string of record warm years. Why this is happening ...
If rapid warming continues, Williams said, studies show vertical wind shear could increase 29 percent by 2100, or 17 percent if global emissions are halved by mid-century and keep dropping.
VIENNA—Scientists at the European Geosciences Union conference last week said there is growing scientific evidence that global warming is driving a big increase in dangerous clear-air turbulence ...
But figuring out how clouds will respond to global warming is key, Zalkina said. “It literally determines how much future warming is in store.” Ad Feedback. Ad Feedback.
New research finds that not only will climate change make heat waves hotter and longer, but the lengthening of heat waves ...
Earth is ‘perilously close’ to a global warming threshold. Here’s what to know. By Ali Rogin, Andrew Corkery, Gerard Edic. Science Feb 28.
SEEN FROM afar—as it first was, by human eyes, on Christmas Eve 1968—Earth is a wonder. When the astronauts of Apollo 8 saw their bright, cloud-girdled home rise over the barren lunar horizon ...
It finds that the world's wealthiest 10% are responsible for two thirds of observed global warming since 1990 and the resulting increases in climate extremes such as heatwaves and droughts.
But Goessling points to a third, more alarming factor: global warming itself. Low-level clouds tend to thrive in a cool and moist lower atmosphere.