How Much Will Sea Level Rise?
There are two main reasons why sea level is rising as the world gets warmer. First, as ice sheets and glaciers melt, they send ice and water pouring into the oceans.
Has Global Warming Stopped?
The average global air temperature, which is the sum of regional temperatures, has been gradually rising over the past 100 years. Despite the current global warming trend, it is important to remember that not all parts of the Earth warm equally or at the same rate.
Taking the Carbon Out of Coal
Carbon capture and sequestration or CCS is a technology that can remove carbon dioxide emitted by a power plant and store it underground. Climate Central visits the site of a proposed coal plant in Linden, NJ to find out how it is done.
What is the difference between global warming and climate change?
Depending on who’s talking, there can be an enormous difference between global warming and climate change—or no difference at all.
How do we know it’s not a natural cycle?
When scientists look at climate variations in the past, they don’t see anything like today’s warming.
What is the greenhouse effect?
The greenhouse effect happens when sunlight warms the Earth, and molecules in the atmosphere intercept the resulting heat before it can escape to space.
Drilling Back to the Future: Climate Clues from Ancient Ice on Greenland
Just before the last Ice Age, temperatures were 5 to 9 degrees F warmer than today, and global sea level was 13 to 20 feet higher. In July 2009, Climate Central traveled to Greenland to visit scientists drilling into ancient ice for clues about this chapter of the past, and what it might say about the potential effects of global warming this century.
Greenland: Life on the Greenland Ice Sheet
An international team of scientists just wrapped up their first season toward drilling a 1.6-mile core of solid ice in Greenland, bringing them one step closer to reconstructing the climate of the past 130,000 years. Accompanied by a production team from StormCenter Communications, Dr. Heidi Cullen spent some time with these scientists on the ice and in their underground trenches to find out what life is like in this remote place.
