BeyondKONA: Climate

For the first time, solar power surpassed coal as a source of electricity in the European Union (EU) last year, according to a new report by thinktank Ember […]

Open access notables Managing and mitigating future public health risks: Planetary boundaries, global catastrophic risk, and inclusive wealth, McLaughlin & […]

The biggest iceberg on Earth is once again on the move, on a path that could cause it to collide with South Georgia, an island in the South Atlantic Ocean. As […]

China broke its own records for the installation of new solar and wind power last year, with installed capacity increasing by 18 and 45 percent, respectively, […]

On the second day of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, European leaders spoke out against President Donald Trump’s […]

A type of geoengineering technology designed to oxidize atmospheric methane is not effective enough to reduce the impact of emissions, a new study has […]

This video includes personal musings and conclusions of the creator climate scientist Dr. Adam Levy. It is presented to our readers as an informed […]

Alaska will resume the “barbaric” practice of shooting bears and wolves from helicopters to reduce their numbers with the hope that it will boost moose and […]

One of the many executive orders President Donald Trump signed on his first day back in office temporarily stopped the United States’ sale of offshore wind […]

As one of his first orders of business upon taking office, President Donald Trump has once again withdrawn the U.S. from the Paris Agreement.  During his […]

Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rose faster than ever last year, according to scientists who say the rise is “incompatible” with goals set by the Paris […]

Colorado wildlife officials have released 15 Canadian gray wolves into the state’s central mountains over the past week. The historic effort was completed on […]

This is a re-post from the Climate Brink I have a new paper out today in the journal Dialogues on Climate Change exploring both the range of end-of-century […]

A listing of 25 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, January 12, 2025 thru Sat, January 18, […]

Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. This fact brief was written by Sue Bin […]

Open access notables Long-term trends in heat wave gaps for the New York City metropolitan area, Lin & Colle, Urban Climate:Heat waves occurring in […]

This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections Asheville, North Carolina, was once widely considered a climate haven thanks to its elevated, inland […]

This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeff Masters and Bob Henson Flames from the Palisades Fire burn a building at Sunset Boulevard amid a […]

A listing of 23 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, January 5, 2025 thru Sat, January 11, […]

To no-one’s surprise 2024 was the warmest year on record – and by quite a clear margin. Another year, another data point. Unlike the previous year, 2024 […]

Open access notables Large emissions of CO2 and CH4 due to active-layer warming in Arctic tundra, Torn et al., Nature Communications:Climate warming may […]

This is a re-post from the Climate Brink Global surface temperatures have risen around 1.3C since the preindustrial (1850-1900) period as a result of human […]

This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections Much like 2023, many climate and energy records were broken in 2024.It was Earth’s hottest year on […]

A listing of 26 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, December 29, 2024 thru Sat, January 4, […]

Open access notables Why Misinformation Must Not Be Ignored, Ecker et al., American Psychologist:Recent academic debate has seen the emergence of the […]

This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by John Wihbey. A version of this article first appeared on Yale Climate Connections on Nov. 11, 2008. (Image […]

This month’s open thread on climate topics. Please remember to be substantive, respectful and vaguely on topic. Note that we’ll have an update to the […]

Rapid progress in the use of machine learning for weather and climate models is evident almost everywhere, but can we distinguish between real advances and […]

This is a follow-on post to the previous summary of interesting work related to the temperatures in 2023/2024. I’ll have another post with a quick summary of […]

This month’s open thread on *climate* topics. Obviously, last month’s events lent themselves to broader discussions, but this month (and going forward), we […]

It’s 20 years since we started blogging on climate here on RealClimate (December 10, 2004). We wanted to counter disinformation about climate change that was […]

There is a need to make climate science more agile and more responsive, and that means moving (some of it) from research to operations. The post […]

This month’s open thread on climate change topics. How are we in November already? And why is it still so warm… ? Anyway, please stay on topic and avoid […]

An interesting commentary addressing a rather odd prior commentary makes some very correct points. Back a few months there was a poorly argued and rather […]

The title of this post might seem like a truism, but for about a decade some people have claimed the opposite, and many people have spent much time and effort […]