The great climate experiment.

• Autores: Ken Caldeira
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 307, Nº. 3, 2012, págs. 78-83
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article discusses how climate change and other anthropogenic ecological crises will affect the planet in the future. Topics include how ecologists use historical climate data to produce forecasts about future climate models, how human activity has resulted in the release of nearly 2,000 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide, and how increases in carbon dioxide produce a positive feedback loop whereby global warming produces less precipitation. Additional information is presented on how average global temperatures could rise by ten degrees Celsius. INSET: Climate: Past as Future.