Solar activity, for example, has previously been linked to temperature and is sometimes blamed for climate change. But our new analysis provides evidence for why this isn’t the case.

A group of scientists have refined the famous 'hockey-stick' graph, adding nearly 10,000 years of data onto it, and highlighting the alarming trend in global warming in the past few decades. This new ...

Climate scientist Michael Mann is possibly best known for the iconic "hockey stick" graph published in 1998 that showed the steep rise in planetary temperatures. He was also one of the targets of ...

Some climate experts criticise the baseline of “pre-industrial levels” for being vague and many prefer a different benchmark. For this chart, the data were initially calculated relative to a ...

Professor Hawkins’ told the BBC that the colours of the graph will get darker and choices made at the Cop26 summit will determine how dark it gets.

But our new analysis provides evidence for why this isn’t the case. The sun is the dominant source of energy for the Earth’s climate, so quantifying what influence it has had on global temperatures ...