Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 7, 2025

You might be thinking, if the burning of fossil fuels increases Earths albedo due to additional aerosols in the atmosphere, shouldnt this offset any impact from the effects of increased heat-trapping emissions like carbon dioxide?

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In an unchanging climate, the random fluctuations would lead to warming in some parts of the world and cooling in others. In a world with just random local fluctuations but no climate change, about half the weather stations would show a (more or less significant) warming, the other half a cooling. I could go on.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

As climate scientists we tend to look at the IPCC reports a little differently than the general public might. Here are a few things that mark this report out from previous versions that relate to issues we’ve discussed here before: Extreme events are increasingly connected to climate (duh!) Johnson, A. Lebedeff, P.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

There is no doubt that we have changed Earth’s climate through our activities on a broad range of aspects that includes consequences for the atmosphere, the oceans, snow, ice, Earth’s fauna and ecosystems. The cause of our changing climate is the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations that we have released into the air.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In this, he is in violent agreement with Isaac Held, his colleague at GFDL, and indeed most climate scientists. Manabe, "The Dependence of Atmospheric Temperature on the Concentration of Carbon Dioxide", Global Effects of Environmental Pollution , pp. But let’s go back to the beginning. 241-259, 1967. 25-29, 1970.

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A Greener Life

MAY 12, 2023

A woman pours water over her head to cool off during soaring temperatures in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 11 April 2023. With our children already paying a terrible price for climate change, we must act to protect their future, urges an IPCC scientist. I am writing this as a climate scientist and a mother of two young children.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 14, 2024

14 Hearing [If Requested] On Title V Air Quality Permit For Gas-fired Hummel Station Power Plant In Snyder County [PaEN] -- DEP To Hold Aug.

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