Global Warming

The 2020 election is both very different and very familiar when it comes to the politics of global warming and the stakes of the outcome.What's new: Democratic voters are more concerned than in prior presidential cycles, polling shows.“It became one of the top priorities for the base of one of…

The Republican Party this week is looking like a house divided on climate change: Specifically, it seems split between business interests who want at least the veneer of corporate responsibility and ideologues who think global warming is a conspiracy to make white men feel guilty. Visiting a burning California on…

Earlier, it was assumed that the planet Jupiter was responsible for most of the tidal heating associated with the moons’ liquid interiors. But a new study comes with another reason. The study conducted by scientists from the University of Arizona suggests that Jupiter’s moon’s interactions might be responsible for tidal…

The world is getting closer to passing a temperature limit set by global leaders five years ago and may exceed it in the next decade or so, according to a new United Nations report. In the next five years, the world has nearly a one-in-four chance of experiencing a year…

The world is getting closer to passing a temperature limit set by global leaders five years ago and may exceed it in the next decade or so, according to a new United Nations report.In the next five years, the world has nearly a 1-in-4 chance of experiencing a year that’s…

Seth Borenstein, Ap Science Writer Updated 2:18 pm CDT, Wednesday, September 9, 2020 FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020 file photo, an air tanker drops fire retardant on a hillside wildfire in Yucaipa, Calif. A hotter world is getting closer to passing a temperature limit set by global leaders…

By American Chemical Society September 8, 2020 Enteroviruses and other pathogenic viruses that make their way into surface waters can be inactivated by heat, sunshine and other microbes, thereby reducing their ability to spread disease. But researchers report in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology that global warming could cause viruses to evolve,…

Environment 3 September 2020 By Michael Le Page Since 2000, the contribution of flying to global warming has nearly doubledmotive56/ShutterstockThe most comprehensive analysis so far of how much warming is caused by aeroplanes has found that flying’s contribution to global warming nearly doubled between 2000 and 2018. Rapid growth is…

Those who argue that COVID-19 isn’t a real threat are mirroring bogus attacks on global warming and evolution Credit: Jay Bendt In college, I learned about the myriad logical fallacies that pervade our world. Good logic, it turned out, was pretty restrictive. It consisted primarily of modus ponens—“If A is…

FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 17, 2020 file photo, flames from the River Fire crest a ridge in Salinas, Calif. In California, a Mediterranean climate sets up ideal conditions for fire then is worsened by climate change, says University of California, Merced, fire scientist LeRoy Westerling, who has had…