Although we’re only nine months into the year, five preeminent meteorological services have already declared that 2023 is on-track to become the hottest year on record—by a wide margin, at that. Although there is the outside chance that ’23 mightn’t reach this ignominious landmark, it would require global surface temperaturesread more
One of the major consequences of the advance of global warming will be the financial cost incurred from the effects that climate-based catastrophes, such as extreme weather events and sea level rise, have on humanity, including our health, property and infrastructure. So far, that financial burden has been borne byread more
The 2023 hurricane season in the North Atlantic is ramping up with a record number of tropical storms underway, with no less than four systems having formed within the span of two days. This follows in the wake of the Pacific’s Hurricane Hilary making a rare track up through the Bajaread more
A dramatic increase in the amount of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, that has occurred over the past 16 years might be an indicator that a “termination event”, where the planetary climate flips from its current cool interglacial state to a hotter, more tropical one, could occur within a matterread more