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There is growing public awareness that climate change will impact society not only through changes in mean temperatures and precipitation over the

Two physicists object to a Scientific American essay calling for an end to one climate report. A science historian counters that the report has done its job

Scientists are worried by how fast the climate crisis has amplified extreme weather By: CNN Sebastien Bozon/AFP/Getty Images (CNN) -- Until recently, climate change had been talked about as a future threat. Its frontlines were portrayed as remote places like the Arctic, where polar bears are running out of sea ice to hunt from. Sea level rise and extreme drought was a problem for the developing world. In the past four weeks, floods in Germany engulfed streets and swallowed ...

Kris Karnauskas is a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and an Associate Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ATOC) at the University of Colorado Boulder, with secondary faculty appointments in the CU School of Medicine and the Colorado School of Public Health. Prior to joining the CU Boulder faculty, Kris spent six years on the faculty of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography (also teaching at Boston College) followed by sabbatical at the Institut Pierre Simon ...

'Slow' Atlantic Ocean may cause climate chaos The system of currents - the 'conveyor belt' - is at its most sluggish in 1,000 years may lead to extreme weather, warn scientists 25 February 2021 • 8:21pm Some evidence suggests there could be a ‘tipping point’ after 2100 which could cause intense winter storms in Europe Credit: Cover Images The Atlantic current system which maintains mild weather in Europe is at its weakest in over a millennium, most likely because of climate change, scientists have found.  The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is part of a system of ocean curr...