The stratosphere normally is cold and very dry. Global warming can increase water vapor in the stratosphere in a number of ways. Global warming causes the troposphere to warm and since warmer air holds more water vapor, the amount of water...

By Malcolm Light Humanity is facing the final, western corporate capitalist, fossil fuel initiated, catastrophic Arctic methane hydrate destabilization and Permian style methane blowout - firestorm that will culminate in 1 to 8 years (2020 to...

“Earth is now substantially out of energy balance. The amount of solar energy that Earth absorbs exceeds the energy radiated back to space. The principal manifestations of this energy imbalance are continued global warming on decadal time scales...

CO₂ emissions are risingIn models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions were expected to come down in line with pledges made at the Paris Agreement. Yet, the Global Carbon Project projects...

In the North Pacific, the flow of warmer water is clearly visible (see images right, green circle left). In the North Atlantic, huge amounts of heat are moving into the Arctic Ocean (green circle right). At some spots, heat that is traveling underneath...

Global biodiversity collapse[ Will global biodiversity collapse in 2019? ]A recent study created a dataset of plant temperature tolerances with a median upper tolerance limit of 23.7°C.This temperature is about 10°C higher than the temperature...

The Doomsday Clock, by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, constitutes a potent symbol of the danger we're in. When taking the 'minutes to midnight' from statements 1991 to 2018, an added trend points at Midnight by 2021. Will it be Doomsday...