Climate Change Facts

Climate change, or global warming, is the term given to the theory that increased atmospheric emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), such as carbon dioxide (CO₂), are warming the planet.

Causes of Global Warming

The article What is Global Warming? provides more detail on the different types of greenhouse gases and how they contribute to the problem.

Scientists who work on climate change use General Circulation Models GCMs, statistical global weather forecasting models, in order to make long term weather or climate predictions.

Climate scientists often check on The Reliability of GCMs to improve on their long term climate predictions.

Global Warming Effects

Australia Moves Forward with Desalination Plans
Faced with freshwater shortfalls due to a changing climate, Australia is moving forward with the construction of large scale desalination plants.

Global Warming Effects
What types of global warming effects will people experience in their everday lives?

Questions like the relationship between Climate Change and Hurricanes are popular today because of concerns about changing weather patterns.

Antarctica and Climate Change
Climate changes in and around Antarctica have been comparatively less pronounced to date than climate induced changes around the Arctic region.

Arctic Sea Ice
A changing climate means it's now possible that the Artic Ocean could be ice free during the summer sometime in the immediate future.

Climate Change and Africa
A review of the African position on climate change policy leading to the negotiations in Copenhagen.

Climate Change and Temperature Records
A review of some temperature statistics associated with a changing climate.

Climate Change and Western Glaciers
Changing climate patterns in the United States will place great stress on Western glaciers.

Climate Change in Russia: Permafrost
The article reviews changing permafrost patterns in Russia resulting from a warming climate in Siberia.

Global Warming and the Pacific Walrus
An environment group petitions to have the Pacific Walrus protected because of the potential for a loss of their sea ice habitat.

Hybrid Cars and Climate Change
A review of the most climate friendly 2010 models.

Is fracking a climate bomb?
New research suggests that hydraulic fracturing (fracking), the process used to extract natural gas from deep rock formations, could create substantially higher greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) than previously thought.

Kyoto Protocol
Background information.

Methane, Permafrost and Climate Change
While Carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions tend to receive the most attention with respect to their contributions to a changing climate, another greenhouse gas (GHG), methane (CH₄, more powerful but less long lived that CO₂, continues to receive attention.

U.S. GHG Emissions
The United States changes the way it measures GHG emissions, and now the numbers don't look so bad.

Will Global Warming Help Honeybees Dance?
Changing weather patterns might cause honeybees to change their behavior.

Additional Information

Climate Change Book Review
A short review.

Climate Change Quiz
Try this ten question quiz.

Global Warming Graphs
A review of the better global warming graphs and charts available around the internet.

Global Warming Widgets
A look at some of the latest Internet widgets created to provide global warming information.

An Inconvenient Truth
This is a movie review.

Public Opinion and Climate Change
Who is to blame for the lack of U.S. action on climate change?

Climate Change Facts