Climate Emergency Data
The Institute's Scientific Analysis
421.18
ppm CO₂
↗ +2.4 ppm YoY
Highest in 3+ million years
Source: NOAA MLO
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+1.2
°C above baseline
↗ +0.1°C vs last year
Paris Agreement limit: +1.5°C
Source: NASA GISS
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4.2
million km² ice
↘ -30% vs average
Accelerating ice loss
Source: NSIDC
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180+
Scientific Articles
15+
Years Publishing
30+
Years Research
The data is clear. The science is settled.
‘We are perilously close to the point of no return’: climate scientist on Amazon rainforest’s future
🔬 Scientific Rating: CRITICAL 📊 Importance Score: 100/100 📅 Published: June 26, 2025 🏛️ Source: The Guardi...
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The Guardian view on extreme weather: build national readiness – or let everyday life keep breaking down | Editorial
🔬 Scientific Rating: CRITICAL 📊 Importance Score: 87/100 📅 Published: June 22, 2025 🏛️ Source: The Guardia...
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A New York Rooftop Blossoms with Lessons About Food Literacy
🔬 Scientific Rating: HIGH 📊 Importance Score: 72/100 📅 Published: June 24, 2025 🏛️ Source: Inside Climate ...
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The Guardian view on Our Story With David Attenborough and The Herds: a new theatre of the Anthropocene | Editorial
🔬 Scientific Rating: CRITICAL 📊 Importance Score: 97/100 📅 Published: June 20, 2025 🏛️ Source: The Guardia...
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FEMA is unprepared for the next Hurricane Katrina, disaster experts warn
🔬 Scientific Rating: HIGH 📊 Importance Score: 77/100 📅 Published: June 20, 2025 🏛️ Source: Yale Climate Su...
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Guest post: Why 2024’s global temperatures were unprecedented, but not surprising
🔬 Scientific Rating: CRITICAL 📊 Importance Score: 80/100 📅 Published: June 18, 2025 🏛️ Source: Carbon Brie...
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Digested week: Climate warning provides more fuel for Brits to talk about weather | Emma Brockes
🔬 Scientific Rating: CRITICAL 📊 Importance Score: 100/100 📅 Published: June 20, 2025 🏛️ Source: The Guardi...
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Climate justice advocates fight for fairness in the face of climate change
🔬 Scientific Rating: HIGH 📊 Importance Score: 73/100 📅 Published: June 19, 2025 🏛️ Source: Yale Climate Su...
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Youth-led Sunrise Movement to launch campaign to ‘villainize big oil’ and force climate action
🔬 Scientific Rating: HIGH 📊 Importance Score: 68/100 📅 Published: June 18, 2025 🏛️ Source: The Guardian Su...
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Counting the Cost 2024 A year of climate breakdown
Counting the Cost 2024 A year of climate breakdown
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A conversation with Ray Johnson: Recent Climate Data, the Energy Transition, IPCC Report and More.Apr. 12th at noon on Zoom
A conversation with Ray Johnson: Recent Climate Data, the Energy Transition, IPCC Report and More. Apr. 12th at noon on ...
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2023 IPCC Report
Click here to read the 2023 IPCC Report This Synthesis Report (SYR) of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) summ...
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Resources For the Future Annual Report 2022
Resources For the Future Annual Report 2022 2022 was a year of both responsiveness and retrospection for Resources for t...
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COP27: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Sharm el-Sheikh
The COP27 summit in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh made history when developing countries secured a new fun...
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2022 Global and Regional Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States Report
Global and Regional Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States: Updated Mean Projections and Extreme Water Level Pro...
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Weather Power tool
Check out this Weather Power Tool for Solar Energy Create your own customized and downloadable version with different wa...
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2021 Climate Change in the Irish Mind Report
The Report (link) Climate Change in the Irish Mind The ‘Climate Change in the Irish Mind’ project is a basel...
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2020-2021 ANNUAL REPORT Energy. Transformed. 2020-2021 Annual Report features the progress on the global energy transition.
Energy. Transformed. Our new tagline is the driving force of the results you will see in our 2020–2021 Annual Report,...
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2021 GLOBAL MEDIA EXECUTIVE NEIL HARDWICK JOINS RETHINKX AS CEO
GLOBAL MEDIA EXECUTIVE NEIL HARDWICK JOINS RETHINKX AS CEO Today, we are thrilled to announce the appointment of Neil Ha...
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Ray Johnson Q/A at the SUNY Plattsburgh’s Ethics Institute
Ray Johnson’s Question and Answer session talk at the SUNY Plattsburgh’s Ethics Institute
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REPORT: Net Zero by 2050
The number of countries announcing pledges to achieve net-zero emissions over the coming decades continues to grow. But ...
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Ray Johnson Climate Science Presentation
Dr. Raymond Johnson's Climate Science Presentation
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At-Home Water Conservation Starter Links
Interested in conserving water at home?
Here are some links to help you.
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Climate scientist and Ethics Institute senior scholar discuss Ethics in a time of plague: a capsule conversation on public good vs. private good
Climate scientist and Ethics Institute senior scholar discuss Ethics in a time of plague: a capsule conversation on publ...
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Arctic Report Card: Update for 2019
Arctic ecosystems and communities are increasingly at risk due to continued warming and declining sea ice
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Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference
Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference Faculty: Jennifer Chang, Daniel Duane, John Elder, Sean H...
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2019 Climate change is roasting the Himalaya region, threatening millions
2019 Climate change is roasting the Himalaya region, threatening millions Link: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/...
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2019 Carbon Free Boston Report
2019 Carbon Free Boston Report Link to Report: 2019 Carbon Free Report Link: 2019 Carbon Free Website In 2016, Mayor [&h...
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2019 How Fast Are the Oceans Warming?
Read the Report: Link to file: 2019 How Fast Are the Oceans Warming? Go to Sciencemag.org website Link to website:&...
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Leveraging Sustainable Finance Leadership in Canada
Link to Report: 2018-Leveraging-sustainable-finance-canada.pdf In its interim report, Canada’s Expert ...
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2018 New Insights in Climate Science online Report
Link: 2018 New Insights in Climate Science online Report From fires in North America to floods across Asia, many ...
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Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II 2018 Northeast
Link to NCA2018 Website nca2018.globalchange.gov/chapter/18/ Link to NCA2018 Report 2018_NCA4_Ch18_Northeast_F...
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2018 Arctic Report Card and Handout – EXCLUSIVELY on ICSUSA.org
2018 Arctic Report Card and Handout Handout http://www.icsusa.org/media/documents/2018/ArcticReportCard_handout2018.pdf ...
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Bill McKibben talks at Plattsburgh United Methodist Church
Climate Change! Report from the Front Lines! Hosted by Adirondack Wildlife Refuge and Plattsburgh United Me...
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Science@30City on Clean Technologies and Climate Change
Monday, February 5 at 5:30 PM – 7 PM This talk is currently available on http://EarthCast.org Thi...
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2022 Weather Power Year in Review
2022 Weather Power Year in Review Posted by Administrator (icsusa) on Jun 05 2023 News >> Weather Power Year in Review S...
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Domino-effect of climate events could move Earth into a ‘hothouse’ state
A domino-like cascade of melting ice, warming seas, shifting currents and dying forests could tilt the Earth into a &ldq...
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The Economics of Electrifying Homes
Seventy million American homes and businesses burn natural gas, oil, or propane on site to heat their space and water, [...
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Tracking Clean Energy Progress
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To The Ends of the Earth
Please consider attending the screening and discussion of "To The Ends of the Earth" film on May 3rd at 6 [&he...
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Carbon-free City Handbook
TAKE ACTION TODAY The Carbon-Free City Handbook reveals 22 actions—and associated resources—for cities...
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DHSS publishes comprehensive report on health impacts of climate change
Alaska is experiencing changes in climate, and temperatures in the state have warmed faster than the rest of the United ...
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Why People Ignore the Science Behind the Climate Crisis (and What You Can Do)
If over 97 percent of climate scientists agree that climate change is real and caused by humans, why is there […]
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Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions There are many routes to reducing greenhouse gas [GHG] emissions, primarily carbon dio...
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Halting Hades Film released
Go to http://www.HaltingHades.com to find out more about this new film. Ray Johnson of ICSUSA.org is featured ...
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New Study: 100% Renewable Electricity worldwide is Feasible and More Cost-Effective than the Existing System
November 8, 2017, Bonn – A global transition to 100% renewable electricity is not a long-term vision, but already ...
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Interactive World Map of Geoengineering Experiments
https://map.geoengineeringmonitor.org/ This interactive geoengineering map, prepared by ETC Group and the Heinrich Boell...
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Uncharted Waters : The New Economics of Water Scarcity and Variability
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Accelerating innovation in China’s solar, wind and energy storage sectors
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Tony Seba: Clean Disruption – Energy & Transportation
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US STATES, CITIES AND BUSINESSES KEEP US CLIMATE ACTION ON TRACK
NEW YORK: The impact from the US decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement could be significantly mitig...
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Learning about climate change can help youth become active global citizens
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Carbon Dioxide Removal/Negative Emissions Technology Workshop
On February 8, 2017, the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment of American University’s School of International...
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EEA Report No 1/2017 This report is an indicator-based assessment of past and projected climate change and its impacts o...
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Outcomes of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Marrakech
OUTCOMES OF THE U.N. CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE IN MARRAKECH 22nd Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United ...
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Valuing Climate Damages: Updating Estimation of the Social Cost of Carbon Dioxide (2017)
The social cost of carbon (SC-CO2) is an economic metric intended to provide a comprehensive estimate of the net damages...
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Characterizing Risk in Climate Change Assessments: Proceedings of a Workshop (2016)
The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) was established in 1990 to “assist the Nation and the world to un...
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Attribution of Extreme Weather Events in the Context of Climate Change
As climate has warmed over recent years, a new pattern of more frequent and more intense weather events has unfolded [&h...
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July 2016 – Climate Change: A story With Many Characters
Climate Change: A story With Many Characters It is hard to imagine a story with only one character in it. […]
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June 2016 – Climate Change and Ocean Impacts
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May 2016 – Climate Change and the New “Re-new”
Climate Change and the New “Re-new” The prefix “re:” is getting a lot of press and airtime of la...
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April 2016 – In Climate Science “Little Things Mean a Lot”
In Climate Science "Little Things Mean a Lot" This is the name of a popular song published in 1953, with [&hel...
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