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 ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

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The second of three reports from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has concluded that climate change will have significant impacts on the environment including increased water stress ...

A new network of research institutions co-founded by Yale is recruiting U.S.-based researchers to contribute their expertise to the next report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), ...

Long-time readers of THB will know well that I am strongly supportive of formal scientific assessments — a form of science arbitration, as defined in my book which gives this site its name. Scientific ...