Global Climate Change

Originally published by GR in 2009 Ten facts about climate change 1. Climate has always changed, and it always will. The assumption that prior to the industrial revolution the Earth had a “stable” climate is simply wrong. The only sensible thing to do about climate change is to prepare for it. 2. Accurate…

A new scientific paper has warned that melting of ice sheets in West Antarctica and Greenland may be happening 10 times faster than was previously predicted. This could lead to sea levels rise of up to 30 feet within 50 years, they warn. A picture of an iceberg which calved off from the Greenland ice…

Global climate change has already had observable effects on the environment. Glaciers have shrunk, ice on rivers and lakes is breaking up earlier, plant and animal ranges have shifted and trees are flowering sooner. Effects that scientists had predicted in the past would result from global climate change…

Whenever global warming makes headlines in the news, there are those who come out to show evidence against global warming. Considering both sides of the argument can help you reach a conclusion of your own. Global Warming Global warming is defined as the hypothesis that the Earth is warming due to the…

DEP officials have been ordered not to use the terms climate change or global warming in any official communications, emails, or reports, according to former DEP employees, consultants, volunteers and records obtained by the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting. We were told not to use the…

Power plants are the largest major source of emissions in the U.S., together accounting for roughly one-third of all domestic greenhouse gas pollution. PROGRESS: In August 2015, President Obama and EPA established the Clean Power Plan — the first-ever carbon pollution standards for existing power plants…

Do most scientists agree that human activity is causing global climate change? Yes, they do, according to an extensive analysis of the abstracts or summaries of scientific papers published over the past 20 years, even though public perception tends to be that climate scientists disagree over the fundamental…

The newly released National Climate Assessment spans 30 chapters with thousands of references on how climate change is impacting the U.S. The report took more than 300 scientists and 4 years to prepare, including addressing more than 4, comments from the public. The message of the report is that climate…

Changes in the earth s weather, including changes in temperature, wind patterns and rainfall, especially the increase in the temperature of the earth s atmosphere that is caused by the increase of particular gases, especially carbon dioxide. Oxford Dictionary Climate change is a long-term change in the…