Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. [Getty Images] Human activities are causing world temperatures to rise, posing serious threats to people and nature. Things are likely to worsen in the coming decades, but scientists ...

Click the downloadable graphic: What is attribution science? Humans have increased Earth’s temperature, mainly by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and methane gas. The resulting heat-trapping pollution has caused global average temperatures to rise ...

After Republican criticism, a group that offers professional resources to judges withdrew a climate science chapter from its Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence.

Current global climate models (GCMs) support with high confidence the view that rising greenhouse gases and other anthropogenic forcings account for nearly all observed global surface warming—slightly above 1 °C—since the pre-industrial period (1850–1900).

Expertise can come from generations of farmers building up understanding of local weather patterns or Indigenous knowledge about forests and rivers.

For nearly four decades, scientists with a reputational and financial stake in the game and compliant, uninquisitive mainstream media have told the public one thing consistently about climate change: there is a consensus, there is no debate, human ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. For half a century, scientists have been ...