There have been record temperatures every day for more than a year. Scientists are investigating what’s behind the extraordinary measurements.
“There’s no ambiguity about the data,” said Gavin Schmidt, a climatologist and the director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. “So really, it’s a question of attribution.”
Understanding what specific physical processes are behind these temperature records will help scientists improve their climate models and better predict temperatures in the future.
According to Republicans and companies like Exxon, anything that may or may not be happening cannot be conclusively tied to human activity. Nothing to see here!
But volcanic gases like sulfur dioxide can cause global cooling, while volcanic carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, has the potential to promote global warming.
usually they actually cause cooling though. Just dont tell the assholes cause they'll start talking about nuking volcanoes instead of, you know, stopping use of dino juice.
I thought we figured out that it was removing sulfur from ships' fuel that caused less cloud coverage over the ocean which warmed it.
The good news is that now that we know the scale of the effect we can do something similar with non-toxic chemicals and help to mitigate climate change.