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
Durban Conferenceenvironmental politicsglobal warmingCOP 17UNFCCCThe Conference on Climate Change is to be held in Durban, South Africa between 29 November, 2011 and 9 December 2011. It is a very important conference for Bangdoi:10.2139/ssrn.1961428Rumana Liza Anam...
global warming,the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases since theIndustrial Revolution. Global warming and its effects, such as more intense summer and winter storms, are also referred to as climate change. ...
The“Durban Platform for Enhanced Action”,adopted at the United Nations conference in South Africa in December 2011, agreed on a road map to a new regulation by 2015, applicable to all parties to the UN Climate Convention. Global Warming Worksheets ...
(Reuters)- This year’s UN climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, marks the 27th time since 1995 that world leaders have gathered to confront global warming. But the world has known for far longer that climate change was a threat, and that t...
in this article. They sent the survey to 10,257 scientists and received 77 responses. The survey consisted of two questions, one of which was the dead horse issue of whether or not global warming was directly linked to human activity. Seventy-five of the 77 responses agreed with that ...
2013). Changes wrought by global warming also play a significant role in pathogen evolution, transmission and spillover, as does expanding socio-economic connectivity—both macro-scale impacts of expanding human populations and resource use. As a result of these global changes, EIDs are on the ...
Nations-sponsored conference-during which the Kyoto Protocol was signed-through meetings in Copenhagen, Canc煤n, Durban, and most recently Doha (2012) and Warsaw (2013), worldwide attention to the issue of global warming and its impact on the world's economy has rapidly increased in intensity...
world thousands of years from now. When the global cooling recovery sets in, the open-water ecosystems and human cultures that will by then have become dependent upon warmer climates could be threatened as the polar ocean begins to re-freeze. Will global warming seem preferable to cooling then...
During Conference of the Parties (COP21), at Paris Climate Conference, (2015) a legally binding and universal agreement on climate change was achieved, with the aim of keeping global warming below 2 °C. Substantial cuts in anthropogenic GHG emissions by mid-century through large-scale changes ...