The article discusses the remarks of presidential candidate Mitt Romney that was released online about accepting the contribution of humans to climate change. According to the assessment of Rom...
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Since the occurrence of Hurricane Harvey, there has been a huge interest in the possibility that anthropogenic climate change has been contributing to a slow down in the movement of hurricanes. Suzana Camargo, Marie Tharp Lamont Research Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University...
38_. Shoes, clothes, furniture and even some electronics can be repaired to extend their life and keep waste out of landfills.Switch to electric cooking. Not only is gas-powered cooking releasing harmful chemicals into the environment, but it could be contributing to health problems for you if...
nuclear (the EIA clearly expects Japan to reactivate their fleet of nuclear power plants), which will add about 0.3 quads, a dramatic rise in the use of solar power, from 6 GW to 27 GW, which will still only produce less than 0.1 quads, with wind and geothermal contributing a fraction....
alteration, or loss. To determine the relative balance of climatic and anthropogenic influences on fire activity, we quantified interannual variability in burned area across Ethiopia from 2001 to 2018 and developed a statistical model to assess climate and human factors contributing to patterns of area...
Human activities are contributing to long-term climate change, but our day-to-day lives can also lead to some pretty interesting changes in your everyday weather. Fall is a season of dramatic change across Canada. The heat of summer gives way to crashes of Arctic...
This analysis suggests that, statistically, both climate and land-use have been contributing to a significant increase of the contribution of short duration floods to the increase in the number of flooded locations. The analysis also suggests that interaction arises, determining land-use dynamics to ...
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"When the greening of the Earth was first observed,we thought it was due to a warmer,wetter climate and fertilization from the added carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.But with data from NASA satellites,scientists realized that humans are also contributing,which was all against our expectations." ...