Recent Ice Core Carbon Dioxide Measurements Lean On Thin Ice
Ice cores are cylindrical samples from large glaciers sometimes going thousands of feet deep that can help paint a picture of the climate hundreds of thousands of years in the past. As snow falls on top of snow over time, the weight compresses the snow into a type of ice called
No Recent Decline in Outgoing Longwave Radiation
The greenhouse theory posits that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane act like a greenhouse for the atmosphere. They allow in solar radiation but prevent outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) from escaping. The more greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, the more radiation is prevented from escaping and is instead absorbed into the atmosphere, lea…
Oil Industry Helped Fund Pivotal Atmospheric Greenhouse Research
The greenhouse theory of climate goes back to the 19th century, but it wasn’t until the 1970s that the theory got a large boost by the research of Charles Keeling. According to a history from the American Institute of Physicists, Keeling established the monitoring station at the active volcano Mauna Loa in Hawaii to collect an ongoing baseline measuremen…
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