RCP8.5, a high-emissions climate scenario deemed to be the “business-as-usual” model under which no efforts are made to curb ...

While global warming is still a threat, the decision to back away from a worst-case outlook raises questions about whether ...

Both the old best and worst case future scenarios in the fight against climate change are being jettisoned by the world’s top scientists as they prepare the next series of huge United Nations reports.

When major new climate change scenarios are released, there’s always strong interest. These scenarios lay out what our future ...

Climate scientists have decided to remove their worst-case scenario for how hot the Earth could get if nothing is done to slow global warming.

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

Climate scientists are increasingly moving away from using one of the most pessimistic global warming scenarios, arguing that ...

By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS, June 2 (Reuters) - The El Nino weather pattern is forming, and is expected to cause extreme weather ...

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

President Trump took to social media to gloat after scientists dismissed the previously feared apocalyptic climate scenario ...

A U.N. panel on climate change seems poised to retire RCP 8.5, a scenario in which the world does nothing to curb ...

President Trump blasts Democratic climate policies after scientists move away from one of the most extreme UN-backed global warming scenarios.