• Ice Age research provides crucial insight into climate ‘tipping points’ caused by AMOC

    ByTW

    Recent research on the Dansgaard-Oeschger event provides a better understanding of climate tipping points during the last Ice Age. The researchers used multiple ice cores collected across Greenland with data spanning up to 120 000 years, providing a new understanding of these abrupt events, how they unfold, and what that might mean for the future. It is really important to understand such tipping points in the climate, because they may result in catastrophic and irreversible change, the lead author of the study said.

  • WMO declares 2023 as the hottest year on record ahead of the Copenhagen Climate Ministerial

    ByTeo Blašković

    The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released its “State of the Global Climate 2023” report on March 19, 2024, confirming 2023 as the warmest year on record. The report is published ahead of the Copenhagen Climate Ministerial on March 21 and 22, where climate leaders and ministers from around the world will gather to push for accelerated climate action.

  • How Little Ice Age displaced the tropical rain belt

    ByTW

    In the most comprehensive reconstruction of rainfall patterns within the Intertropical Convergence Zone for the past 2000 years, a team of researchers led by ETH Zurich describe how even small changes in global temperature can trigger a migration of the tropical…

  • Evidence of chaotic solar system

    ByTW

    A team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Northwestern University has found evidence confirming a critical theory of how the planets in our solar system behave in their orbits around the Sun. The finding is important because it provides the…

  • WMO confirms 2016 hottest year on record

    ByTW

    According to a consolidated analysis by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the year 2016 has been confirmed as the hottest year on record, surpassing the exceptionally high temperatures of 2015. The globally averaged temperature in 2016 was about 1.1°C…

  • Extreme US rainfall events could increase up to 400%

    ByElena Ugrin

    A new research, conducted by the scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) shows the intense summer storms that produce extreme rainfall may increase by over 400% across portions of the US, including the Gulf Coast, Atlantic Coast, and the…

  • NOAA: State of the Climate in 2015

    ByElena Ugrin

    The year 2015 is now officially the warmest year since the mid-to-late 19th century, according to a newly released annual State of the Climate report, compiled by NOAA’s Center for Weather and Climate. The record-breaking heat is likely the result of a…

  • Tropopause cooling a part of natural decadal cycle

    BySeneca

    The cooling trend observed in the late 20th century at the transition between the troposphere and stratosphere at an altitude of about 15 kilometers is usually believed to be caused by human influences. Now, climate scientists from Kiel And Bergen (Norway) have…