Assessing the impact of human-induced climate change
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 - 16:05
in Earth & Climate
A new method is being applied to determine whether specific climate impacts can be traced to human-caused emissions. The past century has seen a 0.8°C (1.4°F) increase in average global temperature, and the overwhelming source of this increase has been emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants from human activities, they say.