Global Warming

To what extent does the Sun s variability affect and/or cause global climate change? For decades, scientists have tried to understand the link between winds and temperature and the Sun and its cycles. There were tell-tale signs of a connection. For instance, the Little Ice Age recorded in Europe between…

DreamstimeIn his Earth Day proclamation last week, The Warning to Humanity,California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) declared: Increasing levels of gases in the atmosphere from human activities, including carbon dioxide released from fossil fuel burning and from deforestation, may alter climate on a global scale…

Climate by Jeff Spross CREDIT: AP Photo / Ronen Zilberman Rep. Dan Benishek (R-MI). The “I’m not a scientist” chorus has found a dissenter. In recent months, American politicians from House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) to Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) and U.S. Senate candidate Joni Ernst (R-IA) have…

Global warming is the current increase in temperature of the Earth s surface (both land and water) as well as it s atmosphere. Average temperatures around the world have risen by 0.75°C (1.4°F) over the last 100 years about two thirds of this increase has occurred since 1975. In the past, when the Earth…

Is Global Warming Human-Caused? The views of U.S. Senators vs. their constituents In January 2015, the U.S. Senate voted on an amendment sponsored by Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) stating that: “it is the sense of Congress that — (1) climate change is real; and (2) human activity significantly contributes…

There are two major effects of global warming: Increase of temperature on the earth by about 3° to 5° C (5.4° to 9° Fahrenheit) by the year 2100. Rise of sea levels by at least 25 meters (82 feet) by the year 2100. More details and secondary effects of global warming : Increasing global temperatures…

By Joachim Vogt Isaksen The global warming debate is loaded with rhetoric, political polemics, and has become the defining moral cause of our time. It is not framed as a scientific question, but rather as one of being either morally right or morally wrong. If you are a person who find the evidence of…

Sans reduced emissions, using extreme geoengineering to remove atmospheric carbon dioxide would not protect the oceans, models show By Maria Temming | August 12, 2015 Credit: Julian Kopald As nations repeatedly fail to make major cuts in their greenhouse gas production, scientists and others have begun…