What do you mean, "cold winter ahead"? Britain and other parts of Western Europe are not at all likely to experience the prolonged cold easterlies of recent winters. Judging by the Sun, we'll have to wait at least another six years or so. Meanwhile: rain.

In the UK, Germany and...

White sulfur aerosols cool the climate; black carbon soot warms the climate. So when you mix the two kinds of aerosol pollution up in the Asian brown cloud, one would expect climate effects to even out.

Unfortunately in our physical...

There is about a 20% chance the world's seven billionth human inhabitant will be born in India - by far the highest chance for any individual country.

According to UN calculations presented in May, today, 31 October 2011, the world population reaches 7 billion people. If you...

Well doesn't that sound like a paradox? It is however really one of the main reasons why warming in the Arctic region is happening 3-4 times as fast as the global average, a research team of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) says. And it would help to explain the...

After bubbles and bursts, trends remain. That's what goes for climate science at least, so why wouldn't it apply to the social response to climate change? A special European Commission poll shows general concern about climate change is again increasing and a majority thinks the climate crisis is 'more important'...

The Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction was the largest in our planet's history. Enormous disruptions of the carbon cycle led to climate change, ocean acidification and ocean anoxia - and with an estimated 90 per cent of all species dying out Earth almost returned to a lifeless state.

Within the...

During the Earth's ice ages the Pacific Ocean stored large amounts of carbon, which for some reason it released again close to the last glacial period's end, warming the world and melting most of the icecaps. That is how the ancient link between temperature and CO2 used to be envisioned....