Top Research Papers on Global Warming

The global-mean surface air temperature record has been broken four times during the 1990s (1990, 1995, 1997 and 1998) ensuring that the present decade has been the warmest since 1860, when the instrumental series of global-mean surface air temperature commences. Estimates of Northern Hemispheric temperature over the last 1000 years (Jones et al., 1998; Mann et al., 1998) also suggest that the 1990s have been the warmest decade this millennium for the Northern Hemisphere. Since global temperature in 1999 is unlikely to be as warm as in 1998 (owing to a reversion of the Pacific from an El Niño ...

Much scientific consensus has developed that global warming is a major threat to the well-being of our planet and ourselves. This danger includes mental health. Violence, trauma and anxiety are all projected to increase. Psychology has also contributed to the genesis and delayed responsiveness to global warming, given the use of denial, narcissism, and fear of change on the part of politicians and citizens. Given the importance of psychiatry for this social problem, psychiatrists should be at the forefront of ‘going green’ in terms of advocacy, modelling and solutions. We are not yet, but our ...

В данной статье говорится о том, что прогресс человечества привел к пренебрежению глобального потепления, которое было вызвано увеличением выбросов CO2. Это разрушает атмосферу, вызывая повышение температуры и суровые погодные условия, влияющие на производство воды и продуктов питания. Ископаемое топливо, вырубка лесов, транспорт и животноводство способствуют выбросам парниковых газов. Глобальное потепление вызывает наводнения, голод, вырубку лесов, лесные пожары и засуху, создавая серьезную угрозу человечеству. This article says that the progress of mankind has led to the neglect of global w...

The doomsday film thriller The Day After Tomorrow is based on global warming theory, whereby the infusion of freshwater into the north Atlantic from the melting of Greenland's glaciers stops the circulation of water via the Gulf Stream.

The forerunner to Progress in Physical Geography was Progress in Geography and was first published in 1969. In 1976, an article on contemporary problems in research on air pollution made the first reference in this journal to ’global warming’, drawing attention to the predominance of fossil fuel burning as primary cause and rising sea levels as primary impact (Wall, 1976). Three years later in the same journal Bach (1979) provided an excellent account of the understanding of the problem at the end of the 1970s, and more recently Jones and Henderson-Sellers (1990) provided a selective history o...

There is no doubt that the single most important event of the last 12 months for bringing together the science and politics of global climate change was the Third Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC). Alternatively reported as the World Climate Summit or the Kyoto Climate Conference, this 10-day negotiating meeting was held between 1 and 10 December 1997 in the Japanese city of Kyoto. The conference commenced the week after it had been announced that 1997 was going to be the warmest year yet recorded for global-mean surface air temperature, providin...

The role of General Circulation Models (GCMs) has become predominantly important as the practical interest in regional impacts from anthropogenic greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) grows. This first report documents the quality of GCMs as a tool for describing and predicting ‘global warming’ and the related geographical pattern of climate change from the CO2 added to Earth’s atmosphere.

‘Global warming’ is a phrase that refers to the effect on the climate of human activities, in particular the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas) and large-scale deforestation, which cause emissions to the atmosphere of large amounts of ‘greenhouse gases’, of which the most important is carbon dioxide. Such gases absorb infrared radiation emitted by the Earth's surface and act as blankets over the surface keeping it warmer than it would otherwise be. Associated with this warming are changes of climate. The basic science of the ‘greenhouse effect’ that leads to the warming is well unders...

Antegrade ejaculation was preserved with the use of the novel ejaculation-preserving TURP with excellent outcome and the results underline the necessity of reviewing the old concept of ejaculation physiology.

Jonathan A Patz discusses the abrupt and long term health impacts of global warming

as popular perception is concerned, considerable efforts continue to be made both by governments and by science into, respectively, negotiating responses to, and improving predictions of, future climate change. By the time this review is published it is likely that the fiftieth national ratification of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will have been lodged (this is out of the original 160 signatory nations). This means that the first Conference of the Parties to the convention will be held during the first half of 1995. This process of national ratification is being accom...

With the recent dramatic loss of ice in the Arctic, the world has focused on whether polar bears are safe from climate change.

• The consequences of climate change are serious, more so for developing countries than for developed ones. Indeed for some time to come climate change may well have benefits in the more temperate zones, where most of the wealthier countries lie. • The causes of climate change are to be found in the increased emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Reductions in these gases will also reduce likely climatic impacts but mitigation will be expensive and the likely benefits may be small compared to the costs, when the latter are measured using conventional discount rates of 4-5 percent in real terms...

The quality of GCMs as a tool for describing and predicting ‘global warming’ and the related geographical pattern of climate change from the CO2 added to Earth’s atmosphere is documents.

Looks at the problem of global warming from the viewpoint of wholeness. That is, the problem of global warming will be looked at in a comprehensive study considering several aspects of the cosmos, the Earth, and the phenomenon of life. With such a broad understanding in mind, first analyzes both the disadvantageous and advantageous aspects of the current global warming. Second, compares three typical environmental conditions in which humans have lived. Third, employing the concept of global warming, looks at the myth of how ancient civilizations appeared and disappeared. Then, considering our ...

In this short article one is confronted with some basic facts about global warming and with the one key area most of those in the Global Warming Camp's never mention or discuss.

Temperature records indicate that the global annual mean surface air temperature (referred to as the global temperature) has risen by 0.5°C since 1840. According to recent general circulation model calculations, by the year 2020 the global mean temperature will have risen to 1.3 to 2.5°C above the preindustrial (1840) mean. By the year 2070, the range of temperature increase will be 2.4 to 5.1°C, and sea level will have risen 33 to 75 cm. Measurements from Antarctic ice cores show temperature swings of 4 to 5°C between ice ages and interglacial periods. Fossil fuel-based energy use through pow...

The ongoing debate about global warming prompted me to have a look at the physics myself, and see if I could make some sense of it. I have to say that I came to this rather as a sceptic because I do not believe that it is feasible to model the climate of the planet with any degree of confidence. The number of relevant variables is just too great. It is well-known that the weather is a chaotic phenomenon, and a look at the temperature variations indicates that the yearly trend is equally random. On the other hand, NASA’s chart of the world average temperatures does show an undeniably upward tre...

It’s time to dust off the crayons and start planning for the next generation.

The evidence is clear. Wherever there is permanent ice--Greenland, Antarctica, the Alps, the Himalayas--that ice is melting. Anybody who has been to high mountains will have noticed this fact. Scientists agree that the cause for this melting is very simple： The earth＇s atmosphere is warming up, The melting ice, in turn, is causing sea levels to rise as the extra water from the melting ice pours into the oceans. Already, sea levels have risen about 8 inches （20cm） in recent years, and scientists believe they could rise at least another 20 inches （50cm） by the year 2100. This could put many heav...