Tagged: Greenhouse effect

Featured image: Climate explained: rising carbon emissions (probably) won’t make the Earth uninhabitable

Climate explained: rising carbon emissions (probably) won’t make the Earth uninhabitable - Climate: Explained

Guest Author • Apr 07, 2021 •

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz Even with all humanity’s carbon emissions to date, there’s a lot less carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere … Read More

Featured image: Why carbon dioxide has such outsized influence on Earth’s climate

Why carbon dioxide has such outsized influence on Earth’s climate - Climate: Explained

Guest Author • Sep 16, 2019 •

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz I heard that carbon dioxide makes up 0.04% of the world’s atmosphere. Not 0.4% or 4%, but 0.04%! … Read More

Climate change controversy in context - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Mar 08, 2012 •

I came across this interesting article in Physics Today – Science controversies past and present. Interesting because it puts in context the current public controversy over the science of climate change. The author, Steve Sherwood, compares this current controversy with  … Continue reading → … Read More