You may have heard me or anyone else on our team say something along the lines of, "drier air allows temperatures to fluctuate at a greater scale than humid air." But why exactly is that, and how can ...

Roy Spencer was a Visiting Fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment. The observed rate of global warming over the past 50 years has been weaker than that ...

Heat waves have always been part of summer, but the familiar short periods of oppressive conditions have grown into weeks to months of sweltering heat. Research has shown that heat waves have become ...

Scientists have warned that climate change is sparking bizarre 'temperature flips' all around the world. Defined as 'sudden shifts from extremely warm to cold or vice versa', these intense events can ...

However, it’s not just high and low temperatures that matter. How many degrees the temperature swings within a day—the daily temperature variation—itself poses health risks. We mapped daily ...