Prepare for 5°C Warmer World, Former Leader of Climate Change Panel Says

By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network Feb 14, 2013 There is now no chance of keeping the rise in global temperature caused by climate change beneath the widely accepted target level of 2°C, says a former head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Landmark U.N. Climate Report Leaked Online

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Dec 14, 2012 A little-known U.S.-based climate change denier named Alec Rawls leaked an early draft of a major global warming report, claiming that a single sentence about the influence of cosmic rays on the earth’s climate “completely undercuts the main premise and the main conclusion of the full report.” Other report reviewers say he is wrong. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Global Warming Likely to Match Our Worst Fears, Study Finds

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Nov 13, 2012 Newer, more complete scientific models suggest that the worst predictions of man-made global warming -- an average global temperature increase of 8 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100 -- may be the most accurate. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

New Climate Study Changes Some Minds

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 31, 2012 Global warming is happening and “humans are almost entirely the cause.” That’s the conclusion reached by a team of researchers at UC Berkeley, led by professor Richard Muller, who now considers himself a “converted skeptic” on the issue. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Time to Remake the Climate

Staff / Truthdig May 31, 2012 Scientists are telling us we can engineer our way out of the climate crisis, and with the intellectual property behind most of the solutions sitting in the public domain, any person or country with a few billion dollars could do it.Scientists are telling us we can engineer our way out of the climate crisis, and any person or country with a few billion dollars could do it. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

‘Climategate’? Not So Much

Staff / Truthdig Jul 8, 2010 A British panel investigating allegations that several scientists studying climate change had massaged their data to prop up global warming claims has largely cleared them of those charges (continued). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Climate Crisis Threatens Billions

Staff / Truthdig Apr 7, 2007 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has warned that the climate crisis could afflict billions of people, especially the poor, with food and water shortages, drought and flooding. "For the first time, we are no longer arm-waving with models; this is empirical data," explained one of the panel's leading scientists. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Political Climate Change Needed

Ellen Goodman / Truthdig Feb 8, 2007 Unfortunately, framing the global-warming issue in catastrophic terms tends to paralyze us, not mobilize us. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Dr. Susan Solomon

Staff / Truthdig Feb 3, 2007 Truthdig tips its hat this week to the U.S. government scientist who braved certain backlash from the Bush White House for pushing through the most authoritative report yet on the dangers of global warming. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )