Global warming may be twice what climate models predict
A new study based on evidence from past warm periods suggests global warming may be double what is forecast.
Earth Sciences
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News tagged with carbon modeling
Relocating farmland could turn back clock twenty years on carbon emissions, say scientists
Scientists have produced a map showing where the world's major food crops should be grown to maximize yield and minimize environmental impact. This would capture large amounts of carbon, increase biodiversity, and cut agricultural ...
Environment
Mar 10, 2022
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Scientists propose a new mechanism by which oxygen may have first built up in the atmosphere
For the first 2 billion years of Earth's history, there was barely any oxygen in the air. While some microbes were photosynthesizing by the latter part of this period, oxygen had not yet accumulated at levels that would impact ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 14, 2022
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During last warming period, Antarctica heated up two to three times more than planet average
Following Earth's last ice age, which peaked 20,000 years ago, the Antarctic warmed between two and three times the average temperature increase worldwide, according to a new study by a team of American geophysicists.
Environment
Dec 5, 2016
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The last 12,000 years show a more complex climate history than previously thought
We rely on climate models to predict the future, but models cannot be fully tested as climate observations rarely extend back more than 150 years. Understanding the Earth's past climate history across a longer period gives ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 4, 2022
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Remote lake emissions from the Tibetan Plateau challenge global climate modeling
Earth's complex systems interact between atmospheric, terrestrial, hydrological, cryological (ice and snow) and biological processes in feedback loops. Understanding their relationships is important for modeling their future ...
Breaching a 'carbon threshold' could lead to mass extinction
In the brain, when neurons fire off electrical signals to their neighbors, this happens through an "all-or-none" response. The signal only happens once conditions in the cell breach a certain threshold.
Earth Sciences
Jul 8, 2019
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Global warming slowdown: No systematic errors in climate models
Sceptics who still doubt anthropogenic climate change have now been stripped of one of their last-ditch arguments: It is true that there has been a warming hiatus and that the surface of the earth has warmed up much less ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 2, 2015
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CO2 effects on plants increases global warming
Trees and other plants help keep the planet cool, but rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are turning down this global air conditioner. According to a new study by researchers at the Carnegie Institution for ...
Earth Sciences
May 3, 2010
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High CO2 levels cause plants to thicken their leaves, could worsen climate change effects
Plant scientists have observed that when levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rise, most plants do something unusual: They thicken their leaves.
Environment
Oct 1, 2018
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