Title: Climate Change: The realities of global warming
Abstract:The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate change. Those were the words that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) finally agreed upon last month. ...The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate change. Those were the words that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) finally agreed upon last month. Having spent several years analysing the latest research, IPCC scientists have concluded that global warming is real, and unlikely to be entirely natural in origin. They also predict that the world will warm by a further 1–3.5°C by 2100. However, the IPCC's key new finding is that global warming is patchy. Warming is reduced, for example, in industrial regions, where aerosol levels are high. (Aerosols are the microscopic airborne particles that end up in the lower atmosphere when fossil fuels are burned.) These have a net cooling effect and partially offset the warming impact of greenhouse gases.Read More
Publication Year: 1996
Publication Date: 1996-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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