The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has admitted that its worst-case carbon emissions scenario, RCP 8.5, is ...

A new generation of climate scenarios has set aside RCP8.5, which projected a nearly 5°C rise in global temperatures by 2100.

Recent adjustments to the most extreme scenarios included in key UN climate reports are being misrepresented across social ...

Researchers developed a rating system to evaluate the plausibility of climate model simulations in the IPCC's latest report, and show that models that lead to potentially catastrophic warming are to ...

Climate scientists discarded an extreme global warming model frequently cited by news outlets in April after its predictions failed to materialize for over a decade. The Intergovernmental Panel on ...

A new open-access tool that dramatically speeds up the evaluation of climate models has been launched by an international team of scientists. The Rapid Evaluation Framework (REF) allows researchers to ...

The worst-case scenarios that guide the work of climate scientists and feed into the major reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been dramatically, quietly and officially ...

Climate modeling is one of the most demanding intellectual exercises humans have ever attempted. Scientists are essentially ...

Climate warming has slowed but, given the loading of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, scientists have every reason to expect it will pick back up again very soon – perhaps in earnest.