HumanNature
DECEMBER 11, 2023
In the background , the question always looms, “Are these extreme weather events caused by climate change ? ”. Julia Aylen wades through waist deep water carrying her pet dog as she is rescued from her flooded home during Hurricane Dorian in Freeport, Bahamas, Tuesday, Sept. As society evolves, extreme weather also changes.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
One of the most pivotal agreements in this context is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which kicked into force in 1994. This establishes a foundation for the right to a stable climate, as nations collectively commit to address climate change and its impacts.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 22, 2023
The onslaught has led to another round of media headlines and press releases from environmental and public health groups asking whether the nation is at a tipping point of urgency to fight climate change. A Vox headline on the orange skies from Canadian wildfires said, “Wildfire smoke reminded people about climate change.
Real Climate
APRIL 2, 2021
In 2008, after a series of Atlantic hurricane seasons that began earlier than normal, a study was published that explored whether the anomalously early starts may be part of a larger trend ( Kossin 2008 ). The difference is due largely to the differences in the regional atmospheric response that occurs in concert with the SST warming.
A Greener Life
JUNE 24, 2022
In the 1960s climate change was not really a significant concern, not even amongst environmentalists – this was despite the fact that the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius in 1896 was the first to claim that emissions from fossil fuels might eventually result in enhanced global warming. This has since changed many times.
Real Climate
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
And by the 2007 IPCC AR4 report, or in Lean and Rind (2008) ), at best, scientists had concluded that solar activity wasn’t likely to be responsible for more than 10% or so of the long term rise in global temperature. 27489-27492, 2000. 801-812, 2003. Rendiconti Lincei. 8370-8377, 1997. Lean, and D.H. 32, 2005.
Our Environment
MAY 21, 2021
Sea level rise within the Pacific has already surpassed the 2007 estimate from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and further predictions infer a further 2m increase within the century. [1] Pacific Climate Change’ accessed 28 February 2021, [link]. [3] Coastal change in the Pacific Islands. should be.
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