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by Bruce Peachey and Nobuo Maeda Contemporary climate models only include the impact of water vapor as positive feedback on warming; the impact of direct anthropogenic emissions of water vapor has not been seriously considered. Background Recent climate change and increasingly scarce fresh water resources are two major environmental issues facing humanity. Water vapor is...
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This report is an authoritative assessment of the science of climate change, with a focus on the United States. It represents the first of two volumes of the Fourth National Climate Assessment, mandated by the Global Change Research Act of 1990.
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[AI summary] This article explores the connection between climate change and methane hydrates, detailing how warming oceans and seas could destabilize these ice-like fossil fuel deposits, potentially releasing potent greenhouse gases that accelerate global warming while posing risks of seabed landslides.
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James Hansen's latest paper "Global warming in the pipeline" (Hansen et al. (2023)) has already been heavily criticized in a lengthy comment by Michael Mann, author of the original IPCC 'hockey stick'. However Mann does not deal with Hansen's surprisingly high (4.8°C) new estimate of equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS)[1]. This ECS estimate is 60% above...
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