Climate Warming

Climate Warming: Encyclopedia II - Global warming - Climate models

Scientists have studied this issue with computer models of the climate (see below). These models are accepted by the scientific community as being valid only after it has been shown that they do a good job of simulating known climate variations, such as the difference between summer and winter, the North Atlantic Oscillation, or El Niño. All climate models that pass these tests also predict that the net effect of adding greenhouse gases will be a warmer climate in the future. The amount of predicted warming varies by model, however, which p ...

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Global warming - Mitigating and adapting to global warming

Climate Warming: Encyclopedia - Business action on climate change

Business action on climate change includes a range of activities relating to combatting global warming, and to influencing political decisions on global-warming-related regulation, such as the Kyoto Protocol. Major corporations have played and to some extent continue to play a significant role in the politics of global warming, especially in the United States, through lobbying of government and funding of global warming skeptics. Business also plays a key role in the mitigation of global warming, through decisions to invest in researc ...

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Climate Warming: Encyclopedia - Attribution of recent climate change

Attribution of recent climate change attempts to discover what mechanisms are responsible for the observed changes in climate. The endeavour centers on the observed changes over the last century and in particular over the last 50 years, when observations are best and human influence greatest. Over the past 150 years human activities have released increasing quantities of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere that theory and climate models say should lead to increases in temperature - colloquially known as global warming. Other human effects are relevant—for example, sulph ...

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Attribution of recent climate change - Subsequent to the TAR

Climate Warming: Encyclopedia - United Kingdom Climate Change Programme

The United Kingdom's Climate Change Programme was launched by the British government in response to its commitment to the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. It aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions not only by the agreed 12.5% from 1990 levels, but by 20% by 2010. In 2004, the UK was the world's 8th greatest producer of carbon emissions, producing around 2.3% of the total generated from fossil fuels. As of November 2004, projections are that by 2010 the UK will be about 8% above its goal.[1] United Kingdom Cl ...

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Climate Warming: Encyclopedia - Climate engineering

This article is in need of attention. You can help Wikipedia by editing it into a better article. Please also consider changing this notice to be more specific. Climate engineering is a term coined by the Global Commons Institute (GCI) to mean the efforts of human intervention to counteract the effects of modern industrialization on the global climate as well as engineer new methods to better suit the environment and its inhabitants. Two examples of proposals to modify the climate plan ...

Climate Warming: Encyclopedia - Climate change

Climate change refers to the variation in the Earth's global climate or regional climates over time. It describes changes in the variability or average state of the atmosphere - or average weather - over time scales ranging from decades to millions of years. These changes can come from internal processes, be driven by external forces or, most recently, be caused by human activities. In recent usage, especially in the context of environmental policy, the term "climate change" is often used to refer only to the ongoing changes in ...

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Climate change - Climate change factors

Climate Warming: Encyclopedia - Climate model

Climate models use quantitative methods to simulate the interactions of the atmosphere, oceans, land surface, and ice. They are used for a variety of purposes from study of the dynamics of the weather and climate system to projections of future climate. The most talked-about models of recent years have been those relating air temperature to emissions of carbon dioxide (see greenhouse gas). These models predict an upward trend in the surface temperature record, as well as a mor ...

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Climate Warming: Encyclopedia II - Medieval Warm Period - Climate events

The Medieval Warm Period partially coincides in time with the peak in solar activity named the Medieval Maximum (AD 1100–1250). In Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, researchers found large temperature excursions during the Little Ice Age (~1400–1900 AD) and the Medieval Warm Period (~800–1300 AD) possibly related to changes in the strength of North Atlantic thermohaline circulation. [7] Sediments in Piermont Marsh of the lower Hudson Valley ...

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Climate Warming: Encyclopedia II - Medieval Warm Period - Climate events

The Medieval Warm Period partially coincides in time with the peak in solar activity named the Medieval Maximum (AD 1100–1250). In Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, researchers found large temperature excursions during the Little Ice Age (~1400–1850 AD) and the Medieval Warm Period (~800–1300 AD) possibly related to changes in the strength of North Atlantic thermohaline circulation. [7] Sediments in Piermont Marsh of the lower Hudson Valley ...

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