Atmospheric CO2 concentrations rising faster today than the last 50,000 years, as accurately claimed in recent social media posts
Claim:
CO2 concentrations are increasing in Earth’s atmosphere faster than they have in the last 50,000 years.
Claim:
CO2 concentrations are increasing in Earth’s atmosphere faster than they have in the last 50,000 years.
…The greenhouse effect and carbon dioxide. Royal Meteorological Society Weather. 11 – Pierrehumbert (2011) Infrared radiation and planetary temperature. Physics Today. 12 – Lambin and Meyfroidt (2011) Global land use…
Claim:
The ozone layer is healing
…extreme weather events, and the message that Bjorn sends for those whose job is to protect people and natural systems. These events are the fingerprints of the manifestation of a…
…careful not to assume that warmer waters automatically make all aspects of extreme weather worse. Though for a given storm we do expect rainfall rates to increase at a warmer…
…weather and compete to reach the bottom. South Australia is winning: it has the most unreliable grid in the world outside Africa and the most expensive electricity. When South Australians…
Claim:
Antarctic sea-ice extent is increasing to record levels. Antarctica is getting colder; its sea ice and ice cap are not melting
…and this is leading to more extreme rainfall events around the world. It’s tricky to evaluate the contribution of climate change to a particular weather event, but generally speaking, the…