Physics World

OCTOBER 30, 2021

With the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) coming up next month, it is strange to think that less than 100 years ago global warming was not widely accepted, even among experts. 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

But they don’t tell you why: as explained for example in the paleoclimate chapter of the 4 th IPCC report of 2007 (which I co-authored), this is as expected from Earth’s natural orbital cycles. Figure 2: Carbon dioxide levels and global temperature over the past 2022 years.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

By the end of the century, Montana could see several months a year with temperatures staying above 90 degrees, said Cathy Whitlock, a retired paleoclimate scientist at Montana State University who was the lead author of the 2017 Montana Climate Assessment.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

EPA , the landmark 2007 decision that said the EPA has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide emitted from new motor vehicles. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. Carbon dioxide is not harmful to ordinary things, to human beings, or to animals, or to plants. It’s actually needed for plant growth.

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