Next year will be among the warmest on record but is unlikely to beat 2016’s record temperatures, the Met Office has said. It is also unlikely to be hotter than 2015, which was also affected by the El Nino. Global average temperatures in 2017 are expected to be about 0.75C above the long-term average of 14C […]

Researchers have pinpointed the ‘natural thermostat’ that cools the air in Earth’s upper atmosphere after violent solar storms. This activity includes solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) – which release electrically charged plasma from the sun. It is known to damage satellites, cause power outages back on Earth, and even disrupt GPS navigation services. […]

David Whitehouse talks to David Rose about the hostile and irrational reactions to his article on the drop in global temperatures since the El Nino ‘spike’ in early 2016.

A reading of 135.8 degrees Fahrenheit below zero was measured in Antarctica, using remote sensing from satellites. A high ridge in East Antarctica is officially the coldest place on Earth. NASA confirmed a new record there for the lowest temperature on the books: nearly -136 degrees Fahrenheit. VPC (Photo: National Snow and Ice Data Center) There’s cold, […]

While about 2 percent of researchers admit to committing fraud in their research, as many as 34 percent of scientists say they have cut corners or taken similarly questionable steps in their work. If a burst pipe in your house is flooding your basement, you’re probably going to be more worried about that than the couple termites […]

With 2016 on track to being the warmest year on record, some climate scientists and environmentalists declared the recent slowdown in global warming to be over. But that might not be the case, according to a new study by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists. They say there’s a 16 percent chance global warming […]

Record-setting cold weather could strike most of the United States in the next week, climatologists have warned. Low temperatures have already been recorded in Alaska, which is witnessing its coldest weather in almost two years. Just this week, temperatures in Fairbanks reached minus-31 degrees — ending a 624-day stretch of warmer weather, the National Weather […]

“We estimate that the warming slowdown (< 0.1 K/decade trend beginning in 1998) could persist, due to internal variability cooling, through 2020, 2025 or 2030 with probabilities 16%, 11%, and 6%, respectively.” – Knutson et al. A new paper by Tom Knutson, Rong Zhang and Larry Horowitz of NOAA GFDL has just been published in Nature […]