Global warming Coverage

Marshall Brain: How overheating in the Arctic Circle will cause the collapse of civilization

Editor’s note: Marshall Brain – futurist, inventor, NCSU professor, writer and creator of “How Stuff Works” is a contributor to WRAL TechWire.  Brain takes […]

2023 Was the Hottest Year in Over a Century

Scientists can now confirm what month after month of extraordinary heat worldwide began signaling long ago. Last year was Earth’s warmest by far in a century and a half.

Raymond Zhong and Keith Collins, New York Times

Protests kick off Climate Week in New York City and the U.N. General Assembly

Protestors from 54 countries countries gathered in the streets to demand action against global warming ahead of a big climate summit and United Nations meetings in New York on Monday. WRAL climate change reporter Liz McLauglin has an inside look at the turnout, and the issues in the spotlight this week.

Fact check: Biden says he declared a national climate emergency

When a Weather Channel meteorologist asked President Biden if he'd declare a national climate emergency, he responded: "I've already done that."

Paul Specht, PolitiFact reporter

Fact check: Biden says heat kills more Americans than floods, hurricanes and tornadoes 'combined'

As much of the country was baking in unusually intense heat, President Joe Biden held a White House event to highlight extreme heat's dangers and to announce efforts by several of his cabinet agencies to aid states and cities grappling with sizzling temperatures.

Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact reporter

North Carolina slipping from Paris Climate Accord goal

While North Carolina is still fairing better than most of the United States, it is still part of a dire warning issued by the United Nations.

How domestic and local efforts measure up to landmark UN climate report

The latest United Nations report finds the world is on the brink of catastrophic warming, but there's still a chance to change course if the planet's biggest polluters can take swift action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Liz McLaughlin, WRAL Climate Change reporter

Steel and cement manufacturing produce eight times more emissions than aviation

Steel and cement production account for roughly 16% of global greenhouse gas emissions, but two Israel-based companies are hoping to change that.

Liz McLaughlin, WRAL Climate Change Reporter

DRAUGHON DRAWS: What climate change?

Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023 -- Capitol Broadcasting Company's editorial cartoonist.

Congress' ambitious climate action would benefit North Carolinians' bottom line

WASHINGTON -- The $369 billion climate and tax package forged in a surprise deal by Senate Democrats would be the most ambitious action ever taken by the United States to try to stop the planet from catastrophically overheating.

Lisa Friedman and Brad Plumer, New York Times

Fact check: Do 100 corporations produce 70% of all greenhouse gas emissions?

If you're on the climate doom side of the internet, you may have seen claims that blame 100 corporations for producing 70% of all the harmful emissions that are driving climate change, otherwise known as greenhouse gas emissions. PolitiFact checks the claim.

Ellie Borst, PolitiFact reporter

DRAUGHON DRAWS: Feeling the heat!

Friday, July 22, 2022 -- Capitol Broadcasting Company's editorial cartoonist.

Report: Warmer temperatures could double the risk of tropical cyclones globally by 2050

Warming temperatures on a global scale could double the risk of intense tropical cyclones in the next 28 years, according to a new study.

Peta Sheerwood, WRAL meteorologist

On Earth Day, a look at how temperatures in the Triangle, NC and US have changed since 1970

We need to implement ways to mitigate climate change and do it quickly, because we are running out of time.

Mike Maze, WRAL meteorologist

New solar panel project in Halifax County could show future of renewable energy for the state

A new solar panel field in Halifax County is powering more than 1,000 homes in northern North Carolina.

Keenan Willard, WRAL eastern NC reporter

GARY PEARCE: Will N.C. get real on climate change?

Tuesday, May 4, 2021 -- The question is whether we - the world, the nation and North Carolina - will get real about fighting climate change. In North Carolina, environmentalists want Gov. Roy Cooper to join Virginia and 10 other states to our north in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI, like "Reggie").

WRAL looks at Earth Day warming trends

WRAL meteorologist Zach Maloch talks about how temperatures have changed since the very first Earth Day.

TOM EARNHARDT: Common ground for healing nation's wounds

Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021 -- If we are looking for common ground on which to gather and heal, I submit it can be found in the nature. It is in the natural world that the rural and urban divide disappears. In nature each of us is an essential worker.

Earth has just finished the warmest decade on record

Here in North Carolina, we are seeing warming in every season looking at the data since 1970. Winter has the strongest warming out of the four seasons.

Aimee Wilmoth, WRAL executive weather producer

Scientists: Half of Great Barrier Reef has been killed due to global warming

The alarming findings were published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society Journal on Wednesday.

Greenland's ice sheet has passed the point of no return, say scientists

A study by researchers in the British journal, 'Communications Earth & Environment.' suggests that even if the effects of climate change were to reverse today, Greenland's glaciers would continue to melt.

2020 on track to be second-warmest on record

When looking at the average mean temperature, Raleigh has had its 8th hottest year so far.

Aimee Wilmoth, WRAL meteorologist

New data show an 'extraordinary' rise in U.S. coastal flooding

Parts of the United States saw record levels of high-tide flooding last year as rising seas brought water farther into coastal homes and infrastructure, government scientists reported Tuesday.

Christopher Flavelle, New York Times

Arctic records hottest temperature ever

According to CBS News, Verkhoyansk in Siberia reached 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit on Saturday, 32 degrees above its normal high.

Study says hurricanes are becoming more powerful

The report can be found in 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.'. It suggests that climate change could be linked to why the intensity of storms has increased.