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5 days ago · The Heartland Institute has debuted a new video series starring Linnea Lueken, research fellow for energy and environment policy and co-star of The Climate Realism Show. These short videos, designed to debunk common myths about divisive climate topics, will cover chapters in Heartland’s book and website, Climate at a Glance.
3 days ago · Richard Lindzen, Ph.D. is Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT. He has made major contributions to the development of the current theory for the Hadley Circulation, which dominates the atmospheric transport of heat and momentum from the tropics to higher latitudes, and has ...
3 days ago · A few years later, the Heartland Institute mailed 350,000 booklets titled, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming, to students across the country. The Grist story noted how a pro-fossil fuel booklet produced by Eversource, an energy utility that serves some 4.3 million New England customers, was allowed to be placed into the backpacks of ...
4 days ago · The world’s oceans are also getting warmer. Temperatures at the surface have rocketed: the global average has broken records every single day since May 2023, some by the biggest margins ever ...
1 day ago · Tracking Heat Across the World. By Lazaro Gamio , Zach Levitt , Elena Shao and Malika Khurana Updated May 14, 2024 at 7:35 a.m. Intense heat has stifled the globe this year, contributing to a ...
4 days ago · This article provides an overview of the scientific background related to the subject of global warming. It considers the causes of rising near-surface air temperatures, the influencing factors, the process of climate research and forecasting, and the possible ecological and social impacts of rising temperatures.
- How does global warming work?Human activity affects global surface temperatures by changing Earth’s radiative balance—the “give and take” between what comes in during the day a...
- Where does global warming occur in the atmosphere?Global warming, the phenomenon of increasing average air temperatures near Earth’s surface over the past one to two centuries, happens mostly in th...
- Why is global warming a social problem?Continued global warming is expected to impact everything from energy use to water availability to crop productivity throughout the world. Poor cou...
- Where does global warming affect polar bears?Polar bears live in the Arctic, where they use the region’s ice floes as they hunt seals and other marine mammals. Temperature increases related to...
5 days ago · Former Professor, University of Wisconsin - Platteville. Professor Egerton is remaining an active scholar in retirement. He is spending most of his time working on a history of ecological sciences. Current versions of this work-in-progress can be accessed at: www.esajournals.org.
