Physicists are fond of Gedankenexperimente—thought experiments that are difficult or impossible to perform in the real world. Schrödinger’s cat is a well-known example of a thought experiment, used to ...

Click the downloadable graphic: What is attribution science? Humans have increased Earth’s temperature, mainly by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and methane gas. The resulting heat-trapping ...

In the FRONTLINE documentary Alaska’s Vanishing Native Villages, residents of a coastal Alaska Native community called Hooper Bay confront a dilemma. Their way of life relies in part on harvesting ...

Data visualizations are some of the most powerful tools in a climate science communicator’s playbook. The most famous have taken on enormous symbolic value—like the “Hockey Stick” graph showing rising ...

Scenarios are fundamental to climate research and policy. As THB readers know better than most everyone, for years climate science and policy have been off trackin relying heavily on an outdated ...

"Doom-mongering convinces many would-be climate advocates that climate action is a hopeless cause. But the blistering attacks against mainstream climate science and scientists advance an agenda of ...