James Hansen

The new chief of the World Meteorological Organization said it looks to her that the rate of human-caused climate change is accelerating and that warming has triggered more Arctic cold outbreaks in North America and Europe, weighing in on two issues that divide climate scientists.

The internationally agreed threshold to prevent the Earth from spiralling into a new superheated era will be “passed for all practical purposes” during 2024, the man known as the godfather of climate science has warned.

The United Nations weather agency is reporting that glaciers shrank more than ever from 2011 and 2020 and the Antarctic ice sheet lost 75 percent more compared to the previous ten years, as it released its latest stark report about the fallout on the planet from climate change.

James Hansen, who testified before the U.S. Congress on global heating in 1988, says world is approaching a "new climate frontier."

A peer-reviewed paper proposes that the top 21 polluting companies pay $5.4 trillion over 26 years to compensate for climate damages.

An open letter from 500 academics likens fossil-energy funding of climate solutions to tobacco industry disinformation.

In the past, the price of failing to address climate change seemed theoretical, decades down the line. Today, we’ve already begun paying for it.

Antarctic areas reach 40 C above normal at the same time as North Pole regions hit 30 C above usual levels.

The heat absorbed in Earth’s oceans reached a new record in 2019

Scientist David Suzuki asks "how do we ensure the price of fossil fuels includes the costs of pollution, environmental degradation and climate disruption?" The simplest and proven way, he writes, is to put a price on carbon emissions.

Climate scientist James Hansen delivers a sober warning on the fate of the planet if we don't immediately cut back on fossil fuels

“The community hasn’t done as good of a job projecting how bad climate impacts would be at 1.2 C,” one scientist said.