A proposal to amend the current five-level scale used to measure the severity of hurricanes to include a sixth category for the most powerful of tropical cyclones has been put forward, as a method of improving the classification—and thus the communication of—the destructiveness of a given storm, especially as weread more
Energy-related carbon dioxide emissions hit record levels in 2023, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), with the increases coming from some regions having to resort to using fossil fuels out of necessity. However, the report also states that despite the record-high output recorded last year, the rate of globalread more
The Earth has just experienced the hottest twelve consecutive months on record, according to the world’s top meteorological organizations, with January 2024 capping the record-hot run as not only the warmest January since 1850, but also the eighth consecutive record-breaking month on record. This continues the ongoing global warming-driven climbread more
The rate of global warming is expected to accelerate, according to a new study published by a team led by renowned climatologist and climate activist Dr. James Hansen, due to the otherwise well-meaning reduction of atmospheric pollutants. It has been discovered that these pollutants resulted in an unintended geoengineering effectread more