Questions tagged [climate-change]
Questions about changes of the climate system, including questions about global warming.
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Can any natural process explain this rate of CO2 increase? [duplicate]
Can any natural process explain this rate of CO2 increase?
[![1000 years of CO2][1]][1]
[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/MO0mK.png
The prior similar question used different data as its basis.
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How does extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere contribute to radiative forcing?
The CO2 absorption spectrum taken at 200 mmHg partial pressure, beam path length = 10 cm, resolution = 4 cm^-1 shows that light can only travel a couple hundred meters before being completely absorbed ...
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How high of a carbon fee would reduce global emissions by 50% in 15 years? [on hold]
The happy news is that it looks like I was wrong. As long as my side-by-side calculations are correct HR 763 catches up to and passes EMF 32 in the sixth year.
OVERVIEW OF THE EMF 32 STUDY ON U.S. ...
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Does clearing snow contribute to climate change?
I've been reflecting on climate change and pondering how much of it is truly man-made. Anyone who's shoveled a walkway know that the snow melts faster beside the walkway than it does in the middle of ...
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Why smokes are considered a factor of global cooling when analyzing nuclear winter scenarios, but arent when analyzing global warming scenarios?
In many articles in internet (I'm citing a couple for the sake of the question) , smokes from the fires (composed mainly of CO2 and CO) following a nuclear war would cool the atmosphere and would ...
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Does anyone have any data indicating a faster rate of CO2 increase?
Pieter Tans 2019-10-07(lead scientist of NOAA's Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network):
Based on the best historical data that we have available CO2 is probably increasing at a rate at of least ...
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Is there any natural phenomenon that can account for the 100 fold faster CO2 rate increase?
"Based on the best historical data that we have available CO2 is probably increasing at a rate at of least 100 times faster than at any time in the last 800,000 years." Pieter Tans lead scientist of ...
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With so many positive feedbacks accelerating global warming, how did the earth ever re-enter ice ages after it came out of one?
We hear a lot about positive feedbacks when it comes to global warming. For example: ice reflects solar radiation, so as the ice melts more solar radiation is absorbed which accelerates warming; ...
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How is climate change today different than the climate change that ended the ice age(s)?
Someone I know posted a question about climate change that I do not know how to answer. While I do believe (for lack of better word) in climate change, I do not know how to answer this persons ...
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Will carbon tax be applicable to other emissions? [closed]
Will Carbon tax be applied to other emissions or only carbon emissions like Carbon dioxide & Carbon monoxide ? Can non-warming pollutant emissions like Chaff(Chemtrail) also be taxed under the ...
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Are there models of mortality due to sea level increases (via climate change)?
In a self-answer of mine on Skeptics, one of the comments rightly pointed out that the model in question (from Impact Lab) does not explicitly account for mortality due to sea level changes. Are there ...
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On what basics, can scientists predict the effects of climate change?
I don't know much about the topic of climate change to be honest. However, I've been attending a number of talks recently on the topic. As someone who studies mathematical models and uncertainty ...
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What is the most cost-effective solution to climate change based on scientific evidence? [closed]
Please don't answer without citing scientific research which has a general consensus or article from a reputable source based on verifiable research citations.
I recently read this article about a ...
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Why rely on climate models as opposed to paleoclimate data?
Something I hear often from climate scientists, and indeed even politicians, is that we "don't understand climate change very well". And, I'm sure this is true since the climate is a complex adaptive ...
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If planting trees is ineffective to tackle climate change, why do people plant them?
I've read answers that outline how if we afforested large (continental-scale) masses of land, it would do little in the way of tackling climate change. While it would sequester CO2 for about a century ...
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Could someone please validate the Holmes equation [closed]
Dr. Robert Holmes has converted the ideal gas law to T = P M / (ρ R) in this paper: (Molar Mass Version of the Ideal Gas Law Points to a Very Low Climate Sensitivity) with T = temperature P = near-...
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Is it normal for a cyclonic storm to form at the latitude of New York, USA?
I am following climate activist Greta Thunberg's sail to N America from Europe on https://tracker.borisherrmannracing.com/. The model shows a cyclonic storm forming south of Nova Scotia, east of New ...
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What is the total mass of organic carbon on Earth?
What is the estimated total mass of organic carbon plus elemental carbon (defined here as all carbon in any chemical form, minus carbon dioxide, inorganic carbonates, and other fully oxidized carbon ...
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Cooling effect from the oceans in global warming
The ocean soaks up about 90 percent of the heat of climate change, because of ocean heating. When using the formula of Svante Arrhenius to calculate forcing due to atmospheric $CO_2$
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Climate change research and policy [closed]
How impactful is climate change scientific research on climate change policy?
Are there any statistics which help to visualise the effectiveness of new scientific findings or new technology innovation ...
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Has the present rise of CO2 ppm been proved to be caused by human activity?
The level of CO2 in the atmosphere has risen roughly from 300 to 400ppm over the last 60 years.
What are the reliable calculations showing that such a rise has been caused by human activity? I am ...
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Can aerostats be used for fine-grained control of the weather
Most of the discussed geoengineering ideas aim to change the average temperature of the earth instead of trying to control local weather.
Aerostats can be used to change the local temperature in ...
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Impacts of high-altitude emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) compared to sea level GHG emissions
I often hear that the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) by planes is particularly concerning because the emission of GHGs at high altitudes has an even higher impact on global warming than the ...
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Is there evidence to suggest that the release of methane clathrates in permafrost regions will impact climate change?
We can see that there are large buildups of methane clathrates in permafrost regions.
Climate scientist James Hansen has predicted that the release of the permafrost methane clathrates could cause ...
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If today's Earth becomes warmer, how will it compare to the Earth of the Cretaceous period?
Most pessimistic scenarios about climate change predicts a global rise of temperature of several Celsius degrees over the course of the 21st century if no action is taken. While such a shift in ...
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Could we sequester co2 by dumping forests in deep oceans?
We know that trees are the most efficient "tool" we have to get CO2 out of the air, but the problem is that most of their fixated CO2 will naturally reenter the carbon cycle through decomposition.
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Origin of Serious Wildfires
At a very rough estimate, what proportion of wildfires are caused by natural events like lightning? I am absolutely sure that in Europe, where there are often wildfires, the sun is never hot enough to ...
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Does depletion of Planck radiation intensity in the upper atmosphere mean that “CO2 has no impact on climate change”?
In his recent book, Rex J. Fleming asserts that "CO2 has no impact on climate change", or, as he summarizes on his website:
There are now over a dozen books available on Amazon.com that point out ...
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Why did “Glaciologist Princess Elsa” have to leave the glacier because it was too warm?
This tweet shows "Glaciologist Princess Elsa" is actually Caltech geophysics PhD student and cryoseismologist Celeste Labedz.
The BBC News article What's a 'Science Princess' doing in an ice field in ...
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Isn't a warmer climate better for energy generation?
Nowadays, everyone talks about it: climate change, and more importantly, how to stop it from happening. Although there's a lot of debate around the topic, the conscensus is that by inventing a way of ...
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is it better to take minimum measure of all measures or the mean of minimum measures as a minimum measure
We have taken the measurments of temperature, humidity, net radiation and pressure in our lab so we can calculate the potential reference EvapoTranspiration. So to find out the potential reference ET ...
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Why is carbon dioxide the gold standard in greenhouse emissions - and not nitrous oxide?
I admit that this is not a genuinely earth sience question, but since there is no stack exchange site genuinely devoted to general ecology, I dare to ask it here:
From a table in the German Wikipedia ...
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What portion of global warming is caused by radioactive CO2 produced from cosmic rays?
The Earth's magentic field has been weaking recently, and the sun's magnetic field has been weaking recently, and it is a known fact that when either of these magnetic fields weaken (let alone both of ...
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How does agriculture release so much greenhouse gas?
I recently came over some numbers of GHGs released per energy in food produced, and the result is pretty flooring. I can see how animal-based food production is quite inefficient so let's ignore that ...
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Are sand deserts the greatest natural convection heaters on Earth?
Ask any climate scientist the question: "Why are deserts so hot in the day time and so cold at night" and generally you will get the same answer, it’s all about the lack of moisture and latent heat ...
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The Medieval Climatic Anomaly
Trying to understand this question, posted to me by a lecturer at University:
"The Medieval Climatic Anomaly was distinctive in terms of the
prevailing climates and forcing mechanisms operating ...
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How are CO2 emission effects and high altitude effects of air travel compared to each other?
The climate impact of air travel is often divided into CO2 emissions and "high altitude effects" like that of water vapour and cloud formation. The effect of the emitted CO2 is cummulative, as CO2 has ...
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Quickly breeding oysters to combat oceanic pollution?
I've been doing some wikipedia binging and it's come to my realization that it may be in the Earth's best interest to raise the world oyster population as quickly as possible. The basis for this is ...
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Calculate GWP over arbitrary time
The GWP (Global warming potential) is calculated over a given time scale $T$ (20 or 100 years usually), defined as the ratio between the energy absorbed by a pulse of 1Kg of gas during time $T$ ...
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The seriousness of global warming/ climate change? [closed]
Why is such an emphasis placed on sea level rise?? As this can be devastating in itself, it can be looked at as a great economic opportunity to put people to work preparing our coastal areas for the ...
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Can we predict the rising temperature of Earth?
Where can I find a model of Earth's past climates and future projections from combined possibilities like magnetic pole movement and other forms of global warming as a map? Without a reference it has ...
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Understood cause of sea level rise between 1850 and 1950
This question is based on the following graph from a 2018 report by J. Curry.
(I haven't found any peer-review of the report itself so I can't vouch for the validity of its claims, but that's not the ...
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Are there more meteorological catastrophic events due to climate change?
I was told by a sedimentologist there is no evidence of more climatic catastrophic events at the geological register previous to Pleistocene, when climate was warmer.
My question is if meteorologists ...
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Is there scientific evidence connecting the current climate in India with global warming?
Experts say up to 40 % of India might witness drought this year.
Is there scientific evidence that this is due to the global warming and climate changes?
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What happens when the North and South poles flip?
How long does it take the magnetic field to move once the poles start to flip?
What environmentally would change? Does the core of the Earth flip?
The magnetic poles are moving now. When will it ...
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How does a change in the tilt of the Earth effect climate? [duplicate]
Could the Earth survive if the axis was less or more of the tilt of that what it is now, and by how much? How would the Earth act if the axis was pushed to an extreme tilt or lack there of?
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Milankovitch cycles and what?
Observe the vertical green lines in this diagram:
Those events shows when temperature starts to sink when radiance is at top or even before that. If there was a simple connection between radiance and ...
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Yearly changes of solar irradiation and atmospheric feedback
I think I understand the mechanism of water vapor feedback in climate change pretty well: a (theoretical) temperature increase due to some isolated factor (e.g. increase in $CO_2$ concentration) ...
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What could cause a turn from global warming to global cooling?
Except a hypothesized orbital forcing! Ice cores shows that there are several irregular sharp temperature peaks in between of the big 100,000 years glaciations. What could cause those peaks?
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Looking for counter-arguments concerning the melting of glaciers in the alps in the context of global warming
I've recently listend to a talk of Prof. Gernot Patzelt, Austrian Geographer and High Altitude Mountain Researcher. In this talk he describes that scientists find rests of trees and moorland apearing ...
