Utilities and governments weighing multi-billion-dollar power-plant investments now face a stark economic signal: solar and ...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has admitted that its worst-case carbon emissions scenario, RCP 8.5, is ...
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 ...
Recent adjustments to the most extreme scenarios included in key UN climate reports are being misrepresented across social ...
A U.N. panel on climate change seems poised to retire RCP 8.5, a scenario in which the world does nothing to curb planet-warming emissions, in its projections.
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. James Broughel is an economist focused on the economics of regulation. The IPCC is an international body that periodically ...
Humanity still has time to arrest catastrophic global warming – and has the tools to do so quickly and cheaply, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has found. The latest IPCC ...