Global climate model

In “Clarity in Climate Modeling” Brian Hayes explains that our planet Earth has gone through extreme climate changes throughout the years. But we, the inhabitants of planet Earth, have been the cause of these drastic changes. To slow these changes down we need to work together as a unit. In his article, the author states that this has proven to be the biggest challenge, but making climate models available to the public may make a difference. In the second half of the essay Hayes explains that…

his excellent work in both economics and climate change. Nordhaus is a distinguished economist and professor at Yale University who has committed more than thirty years to researching and answering the big questions in climate-change economics. In his most recent book, The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World, Nordhaus aims to balance the arguments for and against climate change not only by discussing the science behind global warming, but also by providing the…

Before taking the SoS Climate Change course I thought I had a fairly solid foundation on what factors cause climate to change and how those factors interact, how climate has changed over the past hundreds of millions of years and how scientist predict the future climate of our planet. I soon found out that I merely had a solid scaffold on which to build a much better understanding for myself and my students. The biggest take away for me was how Earth’s systems all work together and that there…

Global warming and climate change can both refers to the observed centuryscale risses in the average temperature of the Earths climate system and its related effects, although climate changeing can also refers to any historical change in climate. Multiples lines of scientific evidences shows that the climate system is warming up . More than 91% of the additional energy stored in the climate system since 1975 has gone into ocean warming; the remainder has melted the ice, and warmed the…

In the article Running wild by Stephen Battersby, the author mostly discusses the big picture of global warming and its weather patterns on Earth. Further discussion includes how scientist are testing climate models to improve weather predictions. Battersby opening paragraph describes the “summer in March” a 10-day event happening in March of 2012 in North America. Rainstorms brought floods to Pakistan in 2010 and 2011. There was extremes of cold and heat as well. In February on the northern…

do have obligations to reduce our own personal contributions to climate change. To begin, I will present my current view based on “The Perfect Moral Storm” by Gardner and three moral obligation assumptions to support my argument. Then I will introduce objections to the three assumptions from “It’s Not My Fault: Global Warming and Individual Obligations” written by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and analyze his threshold perspective on climate change. Finally, I will provide two different responses to…

humankind has looked at climate change in that same way: as if it were a fiction, happening to someone else's planet as if pretending that climate change wasn’t real would somehow make it go away.” This quote was said by Leonardo DiCaprio, he explained that many people act towards climate change like it’s something that many people don’t act upon because many can’t imagine this actually happening to them. Many people around the world have different preferences on what climate change is and if…

and the global warming that ensues, are hotly debated in not only science, but politics. As such, climate models have been created in order to predict future conditions: including how air pollution plays into it. The physics of this technology ranges from simple laws to complex concepts that are difficult to grasp. However, reading the models is easy enough to understand, and they are pivotal in interpreting data revolving around air pollution. Thus, the advancement of climate models (and…

Since global warming became a critical issue that has risen over the years, there are many different opinions over this. Some individuals simply do not believe that the Earth is undergoing a global warming trend or climate change. Others believe that global warming and climate change exists, but believe humans have humans are not responsible. It is a hot topic to talk about among others. There is no scientific evidence to support the idea that humans are the reason that global warming exists…

If one starts to observe how the global political, environmental, and social issues have played out, one begins to see a large dominant factor in the wealth and gains of the global north, at the expense of the global south. Historically, food has been a crucial element out of a handful few of which we need to survive. From subsistence, to mass production, to global networking of food chains and distribution, it is clear that a country as resourceful as Brazil has overtime seen many changes in…