Global Warming

California Gov. Jerry Brown decided to troll Ben Carson by sending him a letter and flash drive full of climate change data after the 2016 candidate questioned the human impact on global warming. In a recent interview with the San Francisco Chronicle , Carson stated, “there is no overwhelming science…

The Earth’s surface warms up during the day and cools down at night, releasing the heat in the form of infrared radiation IR out of the atmosphere into space. But before all these infrared radiation can escape out of the atmosphere into the space, they are absorbed by greenhouse gases (GHG’s) present…

The journal Risk Analysis recently published our article The Role of Emotion in Global Warming Policy Support and Opposition. Prior research has found that affect (feelings of good or bad) and affective imagery (associations) strongly influence public support for global warming. This article extends…

Description The Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join us for a book discussion with McKenzie Funk and Luke Mitchell on Funk s new book McKenzie Funk has spent the last six years reporting around the world on how we are preparing for a warmer planet. Funk shows us that the best way to understand…

People are seeing change all over the world. Arctic sea ice is melting earlier and forming later. Glaciers are disappearing. Heat waves, storms and floods are becoming more extreme. Insects are emerging sooner and flowers are blooming earlier. In some places, birds are laying eggs before they’re expected…

Over the past 425, years the Earth has gone through four ice ages punctuated by brief warm periods. We are currently in such a warm period. The trend over the past century has been one of generally rising global temperature. The consensus among climatologists is that there will be a continued increase…

Cold-blooded and other animals that are unable to regulate their internal temperature may have a hard time tolerating global warming, according to an analysis by biologists from the University of California, Berkeley, and San Francisco State University. A meta-analysis of studies that measured the ability…

Photo credit: Under a high emissions scenario, Melbourne’s climate could end up more like Dubbo’s in New South Wales. Frans de Wit/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND What will Australia look like in 2050? Even if we significantly reduce our greenhouse gas emissions as under an intermediate scenario, Melbourne’s annual…

Global Warming. Climate Change. Call it what you like. The reality is that most of us can agree that it’s happening (even if we can’t agree on the cause or what the overall impact to the planet and society will be although most scientists are daunted). One thing it’s hard to ignore though is that our…