You’ve probably never heard of the term “RCP 8.5” — the highest-emission scenario used by climate scientists to project the planet’s future. But if you’ve read about climate change ...

5 days ago · 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 …

5 days ago · 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.

2 days ago · The United Nations recently updated the best and worst-case scenarios for Earth, but the most likely scenario is still too much.

6 days ago · Climate scientists reassess extreme warming projections Recent analyses from leading research institutions indicate that the most severe climate change scenarios, long used as …

Prudent risk management requires consideration of bad-to-worst-case scenarios. Yet, for climate change, such potential futures are poorly understood. Could anthropogenic climate change result in …

6 days ago · The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may drop a widely-used future emissions scenario as it develops its seventh climate report. In part due to the dropping cost of ...

5 days ago · 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.

3 days ago · For years, a worst-case climate scenario served as a stark warning of what could happen if the world failed to curb fossil fuel use. A temperature rise of more than 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 ...

5 days ago · Today’s newsletter delves into the debate over RCP8.5, a worst-case projection that scientists have now ruled out.