Climate scientists are confronting a hard truth: some of the most widely used models are struggling to keep up with the pace ...

When engineers and planners design roads, bridges and dams, they rely on hydrological models intended to protect ...

The researchers applied statistical tools designed to identify structural changes in time series data over time, commonly called changepoint models, to four sets of global mean surface temperature ...

Climate change is unexpectedly causing north Pacific storms to shift toward the Arctic, throwing projections for future West ...

Climate models have been the basis for concern about climate change for more than 35 years. The US government, the United Nations, and organizations across the world have used model projections to ...

After a record fall, when nearly the entire United States experienced drought—unprecedented in US Drought Monitor history—water managers and planners nationwide are nervously hoping for a wet winter, ...

Climate change is already shaping our well-being. It affects mental health, spreads infectious diseases, disrupts work, damages food supplies and forces families to leave their homes because of ...

National precipitation forecasting has for decades been hamstrung by static and inadequate climate models, but new tools are ...

By 2100, it predicted that if no action is taken to lower our fossil fuel use (a scenario called RCP8.5 by the UN’s ...

Roy Scranton is an essayist, novelist, literary critic, climate philosopher, and author, most recently, of “Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress.” He teaches at the University of Notre ...