Human disturbance is drying out forests

Humans are potentially the greatest forest disturbance and land burning threat in the United States.

And we really don’t like it, according to a report being released this week.

The ways climate scientists explain their predictions about the impact of global warming can either promote or limit their persuasiveness

The ways climate scientists explain their predictions about the impact of global warming can either promote or limit their persuasiveness.The more specific climate scientists are about the uncertainties of global warming, the more the American public trusts their predictions.

Climate change targets need to be ‘five times more ambitious

Climate change targets need to be ‘five times more ambitious’, say scientists.

Addressing an event at the United Nations Climate Change Summit on the last day of his four-day stay in New York, Frances Beinecke, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), acknowledged the fact that the science on climate change is flawed and challenged global leaders who had committed to accelerate plans to limit the temperature rise beyond 2 degrees Celsius.