WASHINGTON — Earth cooked to its hottest month on record in August, blowing far past a key climate threshold, due to the dangerous double whammy of human-caused climate change and a supersized El Nino, according to the European climate service Copernicus. August’s sizzle also helped push the globe and the United States to swelter through
The El Niño weather pattern that is strengthening in the Pacific Ocean is on track to be the largest in at least 150 years, researchers said today during a press conference. If the monstrous forecasts they presented come true, the heat surge that El Niño will unleash from the ocean, combined with warming due to
I have studied climate tipping points.1 for more than 20 years, and I am increasingly concerned that scientists have overlooked the most dangerous aspect of these for societies. The possible collapse of important parts of the Earth system (from ice sheets to ocean circulations) will profoundly alter the planet’s warming and tilt it irreversibly toward
