Examines the science and arguments of global warming skepticism. Common objections like 'global warming is caused by the sun', 'temperature has changed naturally in the past' or 'other planets are warming too' are examined to see what the science really
Heating the bottom of the atmosphere, especially in the tropics, makes the air less dense so it becomes buoyant and rises (think hot air balloon). This makes the atmosphere unstable and leads to air lifting to altitude, especially near the equator. Rising, lower density, air in the tropics ...
Earth Is Heating Up 1951–80 1 °C THE GLOBAL MEAN AIR TEMPERATURE BETWEEN 1951 AND 1980WAS 14 °C (57 °F). Since 1901 0.7 °C THE AVERAGE RATE OF CHANGE OF GLOBAL AVERAGE SURFACE TEMPERATURE PER CENTURY Since 1975 1.5 °C THE AVERAGE RATE OF CHANGE OF GLOBAL AVERAGE ...
and the capacity to form widespread atmospheric brown clouds in a mixture with other aerosols, emissions of black carbon are the second strongest contribution to current global warming, after carbon dioxide emissions. In the Himalayan region, solar heating from black carbon at high elevations may be...
and where there idea of clean green energy is something other than burning dung inside their dwelling for cooking and heating. While the UN policies also include adaptation, which is targeted at increasing reslience, funds for mitigation are in direct competition with funds for resilience. And ...
Upon reattachment, the boundary layer has become relatively thin and the pressure and density are high. Thus, this becomes a region of high local aerodynamic heating. An expansion wave emanates from the point where the separation and reattachment shocks intersect (i.e., the triple point) [28]...
Reaction products were diluted and combined with a size marker, Orange600 (Nimagen, The Netherlands), followed by a heating step for 1 min at 100 °C and cooling down to 4 °C. Fragment analysis was carried out using an ABI3500xL Genetic Analyzer (Applied Biosystems). Data were evaluated ...
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"Our study provides assurances that polluted air has a limited ability to prevent the atmosphere from heating up, in addition to being bad for people's health. There is now one less excuse for us not to cut emissions of both air pollution and greenhouse gases, or we will continue to see...
The link between CO2 and climate warming has caught the attention of scientists and politicians, as well as the general public, via the well-known “greenhouse effect” (Figure 1). Solar radiation passes largely unhindered through the atmosphere, heating the Earth's surface. In turn, energy is...