GENEVA (WMO) | According to the World Meteorological Organization’s annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new record high in 2013, propelled by a surge in levels of carbon dioxide. This injected even greater urgency into the need for concerted international action against accelerating and potentially devastating climate […]
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Part 12: The Timescales of Climate Change: Climate since Earth’s formation to the last million years
June 22, 2012
By Luisa Cristini, PhD, University of Hawaii at Manoa. [Note from the editor: This is the twelfth in a series of blog entries that will focus on introductory topics in climate dynamics and modeling, and will serve to provide insight into the current understanding of the science.] The study of the climate of the far past […]