In other words, while many people and scientists were skeptical a couple of decades ago, virtually everybody today is convinced that global warming is a genuine and serious problem. In fact, even giant oil and gas companies, such as BP, Shell, and Exxon are no longer global warming skeptics...
There is a serious scientific controversy about both cause and effect. As about smog formation, scientists know which emitted chemicals can have a deleterious effect. In other words, we understand most of the chemistry. About global warming, we know which gasses can absorb certain amounts of hea...
This class describes the science of global warming and the forecast for humans’ impact on Earth’s climate. Intended for an audience without much scientific background but a healthy sense of curiosity, the class brings together insights and perspectives from physics, chemistry, biology, earth and...
=(NASAjust came out and disproved your definition of Global Warming/Climate Change. "Global warming: the increase in Earth’s averagesurface temperaturedue to rising levels ofgreenhouse gases. Climate change: a long-term change in the Earth’sclimate, or of a region on Earth." ...
copenhagen consensus 2008 global warming perspective paper Copenhagen Consensus 2008 Perspective Paper Global Warming Chris Green Department of Economics McGill University Montreal, Canada Introduction April 4, 2008 The Bali Conference concluded in mid-December with vague reference to a road map for a ...
increase of global mean temperature to 2 °C”. While this is true for literal interpretation of the output of the GCMs that contributed to the most recent IPCC report (Rogelj et al.2016), below we show these GCMs likely over-estimate the actual warming that will occur in the coming ...
their present-day geographic range threatened in a 2 °C warmer world, which further reduces to 4% of the species if warming is limited to 1.5 °C. Our results highlight the need to intensify (inter)national commitments to limit global warming if freshwater biodiversity is to be ...
As an adult, he wanted to teach children compassion. His themes were simple: that it was good to speak up, okay to make a mistake, all right to be sad sometimes. He also almost flew in the Challenger Shuttle, which exploded in 1986. ...
But a team led by a University of Washington atmospheric scientist has used satellite data in a new and more accurate way to show that, for more than two decades, the troposphere has actually been warming faster than the surface. The new approach relies on information that better separates rea...
Higher levels of maritime mobility and exchange over this timespan may have been prompted by the flooding of large tracts of continental shelf (Soares et al., 2008), the greater productivity of warming seas (Pawlik et al., 2014), and the technological innovation of dugout canoes made with ...