A central concept in climate science is that the response to a perturbation can be partitioned into individual climate feedbacks. Early studies borrowed the formal language of feedback analysis from ...

A guest post from Prof Eric Wolff, Royal Society research professor in the Climate Change and Earth-Ocean-Atmosphere Systems Group at the University of Cambridge. But before you delve into papers ...

Prof Richard Betts MBE, head of climate impacts research at the Met Office and University of Exeter. Scientists making climate-change projections have to deal with a number of uncertainties. The ...

Global heating over this millennium could exceed previous estimates due to carbon cycle feedback loops. This is the conclusion of a new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) ...

Many scientists, policymakers, and engaged citizens have become concerned over the possibility that manmade greenhouse gas emissions, in particular carbon dioxide (CO2), may be causing dangerous ...

As greenhouse gases pour into the atmosphere, global temperatures rise smoothly and predictably in response. It’s the fundamental basis of climate change, the physical law that’s been reshaping the ...