Paleoclimate Evidence
Among contrarians in the public debate about climate change, one often hears an argument that goes something like this: " Sure, the climate is changing. But climate is always changing. It was warmer than today in the past due to natural causes! So the warmth today could also be due to natural causes?"
Paleoclimate Evidence of the Human Factors Related to Global Warming
The Science Behind Arizona's Current Worst-Ever Heat Wave
The Science Behind Arizona's Record-Setting Heat Wave
In the Arizona desert, as far back as weather records go, it's never been this hot for this long. By early Monday afternoon, the temperature was 111 degrees in Tucson, the first in a forecasted series of a record-setting seven consecutive days with highs above 110, the longest streak in city history.
The Dutch Have Solutions to Rising Seas. The World Is Watching.
The Dutch Have Solutions to Rising Seas. The World Is Watching.
ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands - The wind over the canal stirred up whitecaps and rattled cafe umbrellas. Rowers strained toward a finish line and spectators hugged the shore. Henk Ovink, hawkish, wiry, head shaved, watched from a V.I.P. deck, one eye on the boats, the other, as usual, on his phone.
A Newspaper Clipping from 1912 Anticipated the Global Warming Potential of Burning Coal!
This article, published in the New York Times, has been well-researched by Snopes.com and been rated as being TRUE.News Coverage of Coal's Link to Global Warming, in 1912
Scientific analysis pointing to a human role in warming the climate through burning fossil fuels goes back to 1896, with Svante Arrhenius's remarkable paper, " On the Influence of Carbonic Acid [Carbon Dioxide] in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground."
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