Perspectives

There is growing evidence that our changing climate is exacerbating extreme weather, compromising global food and water security, accelerating the spread of disease, and fueling mass displacement. Clearly, none of this is good for the public interest or for business. Yet there are meaningful ways to anticipate and mitigate these risks as well as seize new opportunities on our changing planet. This is what Earth Knowledge helps organizations do, thanks to the most comprehensive planetary intelligence platform—providing integrated weather, climate, and earth systems insights from days to decades from now. Earth Knowledge's Systems of Systems approach analyzes numerous Earth system components across varying spatial and temporal scales to evaluate the cascading effects in climate-hydrologic-ecologic systems. This comprehensive approach assesses historical and likely future changes over a 200-year period, drawing on over 100 years of the historical record and considering four possible climate futures. By tracking the state of the science, our analyses can help identify potential tipping points. Here’s why access to these insights is so important for today’s leaders.

In this piece, Dr. Don Wuebbles, who was part of the panel that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for climate science, discusses the growing risk of extreme weather events to society and business—and what he describes as an “unprecedented level of credibility and detail” in forecasts provided by Earth Knowledge to help leaders manage those risks.

A large storm hit the U.S. Northeast in February 2026, resulting in as much as 35 inches of snow. How, you might ask, can this happen if the climate is warming? Here are three things that help explain how both realities can be true at the same time.

Any time we get a cold-weather event, people start asking this question. That is particularly true in an event like we just went through with extreme cold and lots of snow in late November and Early December 2025 in the Midwest and Northeast. What people don’t seem to realize, although it did receive some admittedly minor discussion in the media, is that we just experienced a very unusual event that has driven this weather in our part of the world, a Sudden Stratospheric Warming.

Is all weather being affected by the changing climate? On the face of it, this may sound like an outrageous statement, but the science indicates that this is reality – all climate IS being affected by climate change. Why do scientists say this?

When referring to future changes in weather and climate, and the resulting potential impacts on humanity, associated infrastructure, and societal sectors, scientists often refer to forecasts and projections. The difference between these two terms can often be confusing and somewhat different than how these terms are often used in business, so let’s examine what is meant by each in determining environmental risk.

Temperature and precipitation are fundamental observations in weather analyses and useful parameters in describing the changing climate.

Many corporations are also already playing an important role in reducing emissions and to a lesser degree to adaptation, but can go even further. Their leadership is essential to making this transition to resilience.

Understand the role of science in understanding biodiversity impact.

The evolution of environmental impact reporting will add the bring biodiversity to the forefront.

A new study, predicts that rising ocean temperatures caused by climate change will result in near-total to total loss of areas where coral reefs are currently sheltered from rising ocean temperatures

Based on both the temperature trend analysis and the remaining carbon analysis, humanity is very unlikely to meet the identified targets needed to keep the global temperature change to 1.5°C. As a result, the SSP1-1.9 scenario assumptions for future emissions towards enabling a limit of 1.5°C are also extremely unlikely unless affordable, rapid, and technically feasible improvements in geoengineering approaches are developed and safely implemented.

Travel and tourism both affect climate change and are being affected by climate change. This paper examines those relationships in detail.

The IPCC AR6 is still underway, but findings are beginning to come out. Understand implications from Dr Don Wuebbles…