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Politically expedient solutions will have little effect on climate change without real steps to rein in carbon dioxide emissions, according to a comprehensive new study by Raymond Pierrehumbert, the ...

The politically expedient way to mitigate climate change is essentially no way at all, according to a comprehensive new study by University of Chicago climatologist Raymond Pierrehumbert. Among the ...

For laughs, University of Chicago geophysical sciences professor Raymond Pierrehumbert calculated his theoretical share of the Nobel Peace Prize winnings Friday. After splitting the Nobel’s $1.5 ...

Former Bulletin Science and Security Board member Pierrehumbert is Halley Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. He was a lead author on the IPCC Third Assessment Report, and a co-author of ...

Accomplishing it is arguably the most difficult problem facing the world, but at least the target is clear. Negotiators gathered in Cancύn, Mexico, are shooting to limit global warming to less than 2 ...

The distant region beyond Saturn is too cold for liquid water, a necessity for life as we know it. But new research indicates that rocky planets far from their parent star could generate enough heat ...

Re the Oct. 19 Opinion pieces by David Keith (“The world needs to explore solar geoengineering as a tool to fight climate change”) and Raymond Pierrehumbert (“We’re still very much in the dark about ...

Collisions among molecules in early Earth’s atmosphere may have prevented our planet from freezing over eons ago, when the sun was much dimmer than it is today, keeping the world warm enough for life ...

The politically expedient way to mitigate climate change is essentially no way at all, according to a comprehensive new study. Among the climate pollutants humans put into the atmosphere in ...

Collisions among molecules in early Earth’s atmosphere may have prevented our planet from freezing over eons ago, when the sun was much dimmer than it is today, keeping the world warm enough for life ...

Is fracking for natural gas good for the planet? To understand the pitched fight over this question, you first need to realize that for many years, we’ve been burning huge volumes of coal to get ...