Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Research with climate models in recent years shows that when carbon dioxide emissions stop, the rise in atmospheric temperatures will likely also stop. This means that there would be no additional warming of the atmosphere from carbon dioxide itself, but the many complex systems on Earth will continue to respond to the heat already trapped.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 19, 2025
Climate models are the main tool climate scientists use to predict how Earth will respond to more heat-trapping pollutants in the atmosphere. Just by looking at the name, you can see that a GCM is a model that simulates the circulation of Earths different physical systems like the atmosphere and ocean. What causes a circulation?
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 12, 2025
Climate models are the main tool scientists use to assess how much the Earths temperature will change given an increase in fossil fuel pollutants in the atmosphere. The atmosphere around us is an invisible fluid (at least to the human eye): we can apply math to that fluid to predict how it will look in the future.
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Both hurricanes were exacerbated by warmer ocean surface temperatures, and are examples of “what hurricanes will look more like in the future,” according to Dr. Marc Alessi, an atmospheric scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists. This bill was signed into law this September by Governor Gavin Newsom.
Legal Planet
APRIL 9, 2025
Graphic: Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego Teaching the climate change unit last week in my International Environmental Law and Policy class, I found myself so moved that I started crying at the board. My poor students thought I was in distress.I
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 30, 2024
Achieving climate goals requires significant investments in clean energy, transportation, and other climate technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and remove carbon from the atmosphere.
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Blacks are badly underrepresented in STEM fields such as atmospheric science and in environmental groups, but there are some important exceptions.(STEM Dr. Warren Washington is a long-time leader in atmospheric science at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). I wanted to talk about some of those figures.
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