Physical Causes

• 03 November 2024

Model Behavior: Visualizing Global Carbon Dioxide

By: NASA Goddard
(2024, video)

The global map of carbon dioxide was created using the GEOS model, which is a high-resolution weather reanalysis system that utilizes over a billion data points to represent atmospheric events with significantly higher detail than standard weather models.

Climate Monitoring

By: National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
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The Climate Change Debate: A Reference Handbook

"The Climate Change Debate: A Reference Handbook provides an in-depth look at climate change facts and statistics. It also discusses those that disagree with the scientific consensus"-- Provided by publisher

Climatology Versus Pseudoscience: Exposing the Failed Predictions of Global Warming Skeptics

This book explains the science of climate change in plain language and shows that the 2 to 4 percent of climate scientists who are skeptical that humans are the main cause of global warming are a fringe minority--and have a well-established history of being wrong

Current Map | U.S. Drought Monitor

Evidence for Climate Change

By: NASA
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The rate of change since the mid-20th century is unprecedented over millennia, despite Earth's climate having undergone significant changes throughout history, including eight cycles of ice ages and warmer periods in the last 800,000 years.]

Losing Earth: A Recent History

By 1979, scientists already knew how to prevent climate change but over the next decade, a few brave individuals risked their careers to raise awareness and prompt action.

Ask a Climate Scientist

By: NASA Goddard
(2013, video)

NASA climate scientists answer selected questions from users.

NASA | The Ocean: A Driving Force for Weather and Climate

By: NASA Goddard
(2012, video)

The ocean is crucial for life on Earth, impacting people globally through its interconnected systems with the atmosphere, and NASA satellites are helping scientists understand its vast and largely unexplored effects on weather, climate, and life.

National Water and Climate Center | Natural Resources Conservation Service

Primate Research and Conservation in the Anthropocene

This book combines personal stories with scientific research to highlight the shift in focus among primatologists from evolutionary questions to conservation priorities, driven by the urgent need to protect viable primate populations in the wild.

The Whole Story of Climate: What Science Reveals about the Nature of Endless Change

Offers an overview of the contributions geology has made to the study of climate change and the nuanced picture it presents of a climate that has gone through constant change over the course of millennia

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