May 9, 2013, the daily average concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere surpassed 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, where the modern ...

the water is cooler than average. That change in water temperature can jumble up the tropical atmosphere above it, causing a global cascade of atmospheric impacts. The end result is shifts in the jet ...

quartet. Similar to how a river will flow faster when pinched between two boulders, the atmosphere has similar disruptions due to Earth's geography, the spin of the planet, and differences in solar he ...

communities and infrastructure and can also affect the rate of greenhouse gas release to the atmosphere, potentially accelerating global warming. The seasonal Arctic minimum sea-ice extent, typically ...

can include this resource within a climate change unit, but should follow lessons on how CO2 and methane cause warming so that this additional impact can be understood with context. Citations are pre ...

over the last two hundred years has released about 500 billion metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere as carbon. You might think of it this way: We're releasing right now about 70 million tons of CO2 ...

are the most useful and are good resources for initiating discussions about variable sources of CO2 emissions. Educator may find the other images confusing and needlessly political. These maps would ...

the 2020s. The average heat wave season across 50 major cities is 49 days longer than it was in the 1960s. Of the 50 metropolitan areas in this [study], 46 experienced a statistically significant incr ...

scientists assumed that the Southern Ocean steadily absorbed large volumes of CO2 from the atmosphere — a big contributor to the entire ocean's uptake of up to 40 percent of the greenhouse gases drivi ...

Other phenomena like La Nina, the Madden Julian Oscillation or the chaotic nature of the atmosphere can also affect how our atmosphere reacts to a disruption of the stratospheric polar vortex. Meaning ...