The Warming Papers The Scientific Foundation for the Climate Change Forecast
John Wiley & Sons, 2013
Abstract:
Global warming is arguably the defining scientific issue of modern times, but it is not widely appreciated that the ... together the classic scientific papers that are the scientific foundation for the forecast of global warming and its consequences.Strange news from other stars
Nature Geoscience Springer Nature 6:2 (2013) 81-83
Cumulative Carbon and Just Allocation of the Global Carbon Commons
Chicago Journal of International Law 13:2 (2013) 12
Hydrogen-nitrogen greenhouse warming in Earth's early atmosphere.
Science (New York, N.Y.) 339:6115 (2013) 64-67
Abstract:
Understanding how Earth has sustained surface liquid water throughout its history remains a key challenge, given that the Sun's luminosity was much lower in the past. Here we show that with an atmospheric composition consistent with the most recent constraints, the early Earth would have been significantly warmed by H(2)-N(2) collision-induced absorption. With two to three times the present-day atmospheric mass of N(2) and a H(2) mixing ratio of 0.1, H(2)-N(2) warming would be sufficient to raise global mean surface temperatures above 0°C under 75% of present-day solar flux, with CO(2) levels only 2 to 25 times the present-day values. Depending on their time of emergence and diversification, early methanogens may have caused global cooling via the conversion of H(2) and CO(2) to CH(4), with potentially observable consequences in the geological record.Clouds and Snowball Earth deglaciation
Geophysical Research Letters American Geophysical Union (AGU) 39:20 (2012)