I have always been a big fan of statistics, especially after I took that valuable course back in my college days at Rutgers University. I saw this press release from the Ohio State University in regards to statisticians using statistical analysis of different climate models in order to estimate projections of temperature changes and certainty for the years 2021 to
A group of researchers compared results from controlled environmental warming experiments on plants with massive new archive of historical observations and found that the warming experiments are dramatically underestimating how plants respond to climate change. Image courtesy of the National Park Service. The historical records showed that leafing and flowering will advance, on average, five to six days per degree
Increased air pollution may have delayed global warming in the eastern U.S. back in the late 20th century. A higher incidence of particulate air pollution (aerosols) in the eastern United States between 1930 and 1990 (peaking around 1980) created a “warming hole” over the eastern United States late in the 20th century. Temperature anomaly trend between 1930-1990. Image from GISS.
Another indication of climate change is the warming of the Arctic, which as expected has been greater than the rest of the planet. Both surface and satellite measured temperatures clearly show this significant longer-term warming trend in the Arctic. Decreasing sea ice and an increase in soot has reduced the albedo in the Arctic, allowing more of the sun’s energy
Plants would likely thrive in the early stages of a warming environment, but that any benefits would quickly disappear shortly thereafter. Eventually, long-term warming would result in a loss of native species and encroachment of species typical of warmer environments, according to the National Science Foundation news release. The research team conducted the 10-year study in four grassland ecosystems of
New research suggests that contrary to some prior findings, carbon dioxide (CO2) led the prior round of global warming rather than the warming leading the CO2 increase. The research team led by paleoclimatologist Jeremy Shakun, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fellow at Harvard and Columbia universities, looked at sediment cores collected from deep beneath the sea and from lakes
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