First edition in 2022 was a #1 Amazon Best-seller in the categories of ‘Science for Kids, ‘Climatology,’ and ‘Environmental Science’ SCHAUMBURG, IL (October 7, 2025) – The Heartland Institute has ...

Models, by definition, are approximations: useful, informative, and inevitably incomplete, because they are the only way to simplify a world too complex to grasp all at once. A new study on nitrous ...

We've been watching temperatures climb, extreme weather events intensify, and ice sheets shrink. Every weather forecast and climate projection relies on incredibly complex computer simulations that ...

Penn History and Sociology of Science assistant professor Melissa Charenko recently published a new book discussing how 20th-century climate researchers used proxies to model ancient climates. The ...

Global climate models capture many of the processes that shape Earth's weather and climate. Based on physics, chemistry, ...

I’ve been reflecting a lot lately on climate anxiety — and on the feelings of helplessness that have simmered in the hearts and minds of so many friends and colleagues. The future of our planet has ...

Water is made of hydrogen and oxygen, and sometimes these atoms are slightly heavier than usual. These heavier forms are ...

“Clearly, the idea of a systems approach is to capture the full impact of climate change; right now, we are capturing snippets.”—Georges Benjamin “Modeling to understand systems at any level is ...

The report warns many economic models are failing to capture extreme weather events and rising uncertainty likely to dominate ...