The global climate has cooled and warmed throughout history. Today, we are seeing unusually rapid warming. The scientific consensus, as stated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is that greenhouse gases, which are increasing because of human activities, are trapping heat in ...
The Point of No Return The purpose behind this scrolling visualization is to show how the world is reaching the point of no return and how it’s becoming increasingly hard to convince the deniers. The data is source...
This chapter, which aims to introduce the basic facts of global warming, is almost exclusively based on the latest UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report (IPCC, 2007), particularly on Working Group I's Fourth Assessment Report on the Physical Science Basis of Climate ...
The IPCC has estimated that carbon capture and storage would increase the cost of electricity generation by about one to five cents per kilowatt-hour, depending on the fuel, technology, and location. Leakage of carbon from reservoirs is also a concern, but it is estimated that properly managed...
Giving voice to the growing conviction of most of the scientific community about the reality of anthropogenicglobal warming, theIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) was formed in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) to help ...
Greta believes that people showing resistance will build up pressure for societal change. She knows that the climate crisis is having direct impacts on manyright nowbut there is still a lack of knowledge. Even so, she does think that we might be reaching the social tipping point, where climat...
Today a little education about education. First I’ll crunch some numbers, as I like to do. 4,726 = the number of colleges and universities United States. $589 billion = the amount spent by students annually. Of that figure, $393 billion = tuition fees, and ...
There are no financial penalties for this in accordance with the Kyoto Protocol’s non-compliance provisions. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in order to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions must be cut ...
results of the IPCC's climate models, whose projections are shown to be unrealistically high. Even though global warming has become mostly an academic concern now that the climate has moved into a cooling phase [24], it's still important to understand what is and is not factual about the ...
Marohasy: “Actually, no. The head of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has actually acknowledged it. He talks about the apparent plateau in temperatures so far this century. So he recognises that in this century, over the past eight years, temperatures have plateaued … This...