Global Warming - Why Our Best Guess Is Probably Wrong
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 13:49
in Earth & Climate
Climate science is tricky business because the atmosphere and Mother Earth are an eloborate, complex system no one understands. So how much Earth's climate will warm due to carbon emissions is open to speculation but a new study this week suggests scientists' best predictions about global warming are likely incorrect. Which means they could be high ... but they could also be really low. The study in Nature Geoscience says that climate models explain only about half of the heating that occurred during a well-documented period of rapid global warming in Earth's ancient past. read more
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