Could it be true that global temperatures will fall before they rise? That's the thrust of a presentation at last week's World Climate conference.

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An interesting perspective from the top Chinese climatologist. So, who was predicting that the Chinese would go along with us on cap and trade? ......

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Climate forecasts will tend to say things like August will have an 80 percent likelihood of a very severe heat wave, while a weather forecast would predict a certain high temperature for a certain day.

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The use of geo-engineering to slow global warming may increase the risk of drought, according to a paper in Science journal.

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If the tundra becomes increasingly warm and wet — which is anticipated as global temperatures rise — it might emit more carbon than expected

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Excellent article written by 15 Australian scientists describing the dangers of tipping points or feedback mechanisms in climate change as well as the basic current understanding of the science.

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Is it the final curtain for the Fertile Crescent? This summer, as Turkish dams reduce the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to a trickle, farmers abandon their desiccated fields across Iraq and Syria, and efforts to revive the Mesopotamian marshes appear to be abandoned, climate modell …

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Now a segment of the Green movement presents a fresh challenge to mankind's place within nature. Humans, the thinking goes, are one species among the many, a life form coexisting with others, our rights commensurate with those of snail darters, mosquitoes and coral reefs.

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DURHAM, N.C.

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even as the coalition worked to sway opinion, its own scientific and technical experts were advising that the science backing the role of greenhouse gases in global warming could not be refuted.

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Researchers are using novel paleoclimatic indicators tied closely to specific archaeological sites to see just what ancient Maya experienced; others are modeling the climatic impact of deforestation.

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It appears, from several experiments around the world, that global warming would be much worse than the 1.7 degrees we are currently experiencing, if we suddenly stopped burning fossil fuels and creating air pollution.

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Study: too late to turn back the clock on climate change A new study in PNAS examines the impact of climate change over the long term, and finds that we're locked into sea level rises and droughts for the next thousand years as a result of past greenhouse gas emissions.

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2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved, according to the Telegraph's Christopher Booker.

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Scientists have determined that due to a dramatic loss of sea-ice in the Arctic during the summer of 2007, convective mixing in the North Atlantic Ocean, a mechanism that helps to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, has returned after a decade of near stagnation.

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Our impact on Earth's climate might be even more profound than we realise. Before we started pumping massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the planet was on the brink of entering a semi-permanent ice age, two researchers have proposed.

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A new study suggests that more sunspots mean less intense hurricanes on Earth. But many hurricane experts are cool on the idea.

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27 years ago Thursday, James Hansen and six other NASA atmospheric physicists, published a seminal article in Science, "Climate Impact of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide." The paper has a number of caveats, as befits a major projection before modern climate models [...] …

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Melting alpine glaciers are revealing fascinating clues to Neolithic life in the high mountains. And, as a conference of archaeologists and climatologists meeting in the Swiss capital Berne has been discussing, the finds are also providing key indicators to climate change.

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"The evidence is pretty convincing that the models give a good simulation of climate"

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Global warming has felt like breaking news a few times in recent years.

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A warming global ocean — influencing the winds that shear off the tops of developing storms — could mean fewer Atlantic hurricanes striking the United States according to new findings by NOAA climate scientists.

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It's a wild world, and many an argument has taken place over which locales are the most extreme.

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What are some of the reasons why "climate sceptics" dispute the evidence that human activities such as industrial emissions of greenhouse gases and deforestation are bringing potentially dangerous changes to the Earth's climate?

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Human activity is behind the rising levels of water vapour in the lower atmosphere over the past few decades, climatologists have concluded. The rises in humidity could affect patterns of extreme storms, they warn. [...]

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