Everything depends on what people and their government do,” Somerville writes, not once, not twice, but (if I count correctly) seven times.

Climate change can be explained by six simple facts: It’s real! It’s us! Experts agree! It’s bad! Others care! There’s hope! Present day climate change denial instead targets the remaining three facts ...

People quickly normalize extreme weather. Simple visuals highlighting abrupt change could help climate change break through our mental blind spots.

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Gradually increasing the price of fossil fuels is considered a key element of effective climate policy—and yet it remains the subject of bitter controversy. In a new book, experts from the Potsdam ...

Science is nuanced. This basic truth certainly holds for the field of atmospheric science, where the complexities of the airy environment are investigated. The climate science subdiscipline explores ...

There is something humbling about realizing that the most urgent climate questions we wrestle with today were, in many ways, already being answered decades ago. Scientists, policymakers, and ordinary ...

The Earth’s atmosphere is nothing but freely roaming molecules. Left alone, they would drift and collide, and eventually even out into a mixture that’s dynamic, yet stable and broadly unchanging. The ...

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A potted scarlet monkeyflower would die within a few days without water. But multiple natural populations of the species ...