These come from burning fossil fuels such as gasoline for driving a car or coal for heating a building. Clearing land and forests can also release carbon dioxide. Landfills for garbage are another source. Energy, industry, agriculture and waste disposal are among the major emitters....
These include less stringent air quality regulations, the prevalence of older, more polluting machinery and vehicles, fossil fuel subsidies, congested urban transport systems, coal-based residential heating, rapidly developing industrial sectors, and cut-and-burn agricultural practices6,10. Of the 7.3 ...
Wellenius said an important aspect of the studies was that they showed that vulnerable people often suffered the worst effects, for example people of colour and those on low incomes who did not have air conditioning or lived in areas with higher air pollution. “This is absolutely a health eq...
Each IPCC report has helped to build a scientific consensus that elevated concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are the major drivers of rising near-surfaceairtemperatures and their associated ongoing climatic changes. In this respect, the current episode of climatic change, which began ...
Editorial. Comments on the issue of global warming in the world, and the lack of response by governments to improve the situation. Changes in the climate noted; Rate at which the world is heating up; Comparison of the reaction of authorities, corporate interests and mass media to global ...
Heating is the most significant carbon-emitting activity in buildings. Accounting for the coal, oil and gas used directly and indirectly via electricity generation for heating, 65% of all heating equipment produces greenhouse gases in some form. While th
{m}}}\), confirming previous studies12,37. This ENSO-driven variability in OHC is related to net air-sea heat exchanges and the redistribution of heat laterally across different latitudes and ocean regions, and vertically between surface and subsurface layers37,38. In this way, tropical warming...
Extensive biomass burning occurs over Siberia and Canada, mainly during summer and less in spring, emitting carbonaceous (mainly OC, Figure S1v) particles, which eventually contribute to a local atmospheric heating and surface/TOA cooling effect (the latter two effects being however dominated by sulf...
Acceleration of Warming, Deoxygenation, and Acidification in the Arabian Gulf Driven by Weakening of Summer Winds, Lachkar et al., Geophysical Research Letters Open Access 10.1029/2024gl109898 Basic Physics Predicts Stronger High Cloud Radiative Heating With Warming, Gasparini et al., Geophysical Researc...
planet. In the northern hemisphere, this cooling has partly canceled some of the warming that should have come from the growing concentrations of greenhouse gases. However, since emissions of greenhouse gases continue to grow, and most countries are working hard to reduce emissions of sulfur air ...