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4 days ago · Gore’s contribution was disseminating those facts widely in “An Inconvenient Truth,” a popular documentary that made the science understandable.
2 days ago · Modern global warming is the result of an increase in magnitude of the so-called greenhouse effect, a warming of Earth’s surface and lower atmosphere caused by the presence of water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxides, and other greenhouse gases.
2 days ago · Effects of climate change are well documented and growing for Earth's natural environment and human societies. Changes to the climate system include an overall warming trend, changes to precipitation patterns, and more extreme weather.
2 days ago · Vigliotti, who observed the greatest jump in these numbers following the release of Al Gore’s seminal climate change documentary, An Inconvenient Truth (2006), doesn’t believe the connection ...
2 days ago · Global warming - Climate Change, Melting Ice, Rising Sea Levels: Global warming and climate change have the potential to alter biological systems. More specifically, changes to near-surface air temperatures will likely influence ecosystem functioning and thus the biodiversity of plants, animals, and other forms of life.
2 days ago · In 2003, Hansen wrote a paper called "Can We Defuse the Global Warming Time Bomb?" in which he argued that human-caused forces on the climate are now greater than natural ones, and that this, over a long time period, can cause large climate changes. [44]
4 days ago · Myth #1: Climate change has always happened, so we should not worry about it. While it is true that global temperatures have been warming and cooling over the long term, the relative stability of the climate since the last ice age 10,000 years ago has been crucial for the development of human civilization. However, this stability is now broken.
