Tinted detail of a photo: Weathered limestone cliff built of hundreds of thin stacked layers like a pile of pancakes, grey at the top and orange-brown below, with a small dark pool in a hollow.
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Climate: Past, Present & Future

Carbon Dioxide

How humans are influencing climate change and its significance in defining a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene

, and April 26, 2021
How humans are influencing climate change and its significance in defining a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene

The Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) is the body tasked to propose a formal definition for the Anthropocene as a geological time unit. Join us at the EGU2021 General Assembly on Wednesday 28th April at 14:15-15:00 CEST for a series of presentations on the Anthropocene in session SSP2.6.   The Anthropocene concept Geologists cope with the …[Read More]

The Climate Tango of ENSO and CO2

and March 16, 2017

In 1904, the Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius suggested that the burning of fossil fuels to satiate our hunger for energy would increase the percentage of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, which would change the Earth’s temperature. Regular measurements of atmospheric CO2, started in the late 1950’s at remote locations such as Mauna Loa in …[Read More]