Climate Scientist Fossil Fuels Radiation 
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 7, 2025
Scientists are sounding the alarm because this warming is shockingly bigbigger than what we would have expected given the long-term warming trend from fossil fuel-caused climate change. Albedo is the total reflection of incoming solar radiation by Earth. But why were 2023 and 2024 so warm? What is albedo?
Legal Planet
APRIL 7, 2024
Communities from Texas to Ohio that are benefiting from this scientifically informed tourism boom are the same places where some people like to question and mock climate scientists. As NASA points out on X , the temperature drop gives “a firsthand sense that the sun is a major part of Earth’s climate system.
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Real Climate
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
The most important problem with the sun-climate explanation is that there has been no long-term change in either solar activity or cosmic radiation over the last hundred years that can explain the global warming we are now seeing. It feels like we start from scratch again because of inexperienced and lazy newcomers.
Physics World
OCTOBER 30, 2021
The correlation had been shown in a paper by an author outside the conventional scientific community, so, for good measure, Simpson added that a non-expert could not properly appreciate how atmospheric circulation affects the absorption of radiation. Three years later, Tyndall showed that the CO 2 absorption occurs at infrared wavelengths.
Frontiers
AUGUST 7, 2023
While the main focus has been on operational activities in Antarctica, global warming caused by fossil-fuel burning by these (and other) countries has left Antarctica on the brink of irreversible change. Prof Martin Siegert is an award-winning Antarctic glaciologist and climate scientist.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 10, 2022
Climate scientists at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) have dubbed the six-month stretch from May through October the “ Danger Season.” Not only has much of what climate scientists have been warning about come to pass, many of the extreme weather events the planet is now experiencing are worse than they expected. “To
Environmental Progress
AUGUST 3, 2020
As it became clear that the growth in the global birth rate had peaked, Malthusian thinkers started to look to climate change as a replacement apocalypse for overpopulation and resource scarcity. I show how Malthusians have used climate change to shift from claiming fossil fuels were scarce to claiming that the environment was scarce.
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