Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 7, 2025

Albedo is the total reflection of incoming solar radiation by Earth. 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? What is albedo?

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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!) 1981) which can be seen here.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 30, 2021

In fact, in 1938 Sir George Simpson, a leading meteorologist, dismissed the link between rising carbon-dioxide (CO 2 ) concentration and temperature as “ rather a coincidence ”. Callendar’s 1938 paper “The artificial production of carbon dioxide and its influence on temperature” ( Q. 139 1961 ).

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The energy balance of our planet , the radiation arriving and leaving, is continually monitored by a global radiation network at the surface and by dedicated satellites. And yes, also the increase in back-radiation towards the Earth surface from the CO2 greenhouse effect is a measured fact.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Last month, 44 climate scientists from 15 countries wrote an open letter to the Nordic Council of Ministers highlighting the risk of a potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a critical ocean current system in the Atlantic Ocean. What are climate scientists demanding?

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