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Also called global warming denial. climate change feedback A natural phenomenon that may increase or decrease the warming that eventually results from a change in radiative forcing. climate change mitigation approaches to limit global warming, primarily by the substitution of fossil fuels with low-carbon sources of energy climate commitment How much future warming is "committed", even if ...
Climate change has already affected the physical and mental health of people in the United Kingdom. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The country's climate is becoming warmer, with drier summers and wetter winters. [ 3 ] Health threats due to climate change in the UK include heatwaves , floods , storms , air pollution and new infectious diseases , among others.
In the 1980s, the terms global warming and climate change became more common, often being used interchangeably. [29] [30] [31] Scientifically, global warming refers only to increased surface warming, while climate change describes both global warming and its effects on Earth's climate system, such as precipitation changes. [28]
He describes nature as a force previously independent of human beings but now directly affected by the actions of people. [1] "If the waves crash up against the beach, eroding dunes and destroying homes, it is not the awesome power of Mother Nature. It is the awesome power of Mother Nature as altered by the awesome power of man, who has ...
The controversies are, by now, mostly political rather than scientific: there is a scientific consensus that global warming is happening and is caused by human activity. [2] Public debates that also reflect scientific debate include estimates of how responsive the climate system might be to any given level of greenhouse gases (climate sensitivity).
11 March: a review article published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change concluded that warming from non-CO 2 agents (especially CH 4 and N 2 O) in the Amazon basin largely offsets—and most likely exceeds—the climate change mitigating effect of the region's CO 2 uptake. [45]
The United States Environmental Protection Agency had issued a 100-page report on global warming and human health back in 1989. [131] [144] By the early years of the 21st century, climate change was increasingly addressed as a public health concern at a global level, for example in 2006 at Nairobi by UN secretary general Kofi Annan.
There are both links and major differences between ozone depletion and global warming and the way the two challenges have been handled. While in the case of atmospheric ozone depletion, in a situation of high uncertainty and against strong resistance, climate change regulation attempts at the international level such as the Kyoto Protocol have ...