What’s REALLY Warming the Earth?
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References/Learn more:
July 2016 is hottest on record: http://climate.nasa.gov/news/2....479/nasa-analysis-fi
NOAA’s State of the Climate July 2016 http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201607
Bloomberg’s climate change data viz project: http://www.bloomberg.com/graph....ics/2015-whats-warmi
Solar activity and temperature show opposite trend: https://www.skepticalscience.c....om/solar-activity-su
Milankovitch cycles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles (I left out eccentricity because it operates on scales so long that it doesn’t affect short term climate change)
Connecting climate models with actual temperature changes http://journals.ametsoc.org/do....i/full/10.1175/BAMS-
NASA Goddard’s Gavin Schmidt explains the history of the instrumental temperature record https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkT7IyUSjq0
Last time CO2 was this high, humans didn’t exist http://www.climatecentral.org/....news/the-last-time-c
Shifting baselines: http://www.shiftingbaselines.org/op_ed/
Thomas Jefferson’s weather observations: https://www.monticello.org/sit....e/research-and-colle
Ben Franklin as Meteorologist: http://www.jstor.org/stable/983821
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