Expert Links on Climate Change

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2. What causes this climate change?

2.1. Are human activities modifying the atmosphere?

See IPCC Third Assessment Report of Working Group 1:

2.1.1. Are human activities increasing greenhouse gases concentrations?

See IPCC Third Assessment Report of Working Group 1:

Chapter 3.3.1 : Geological History of Atmospheric CO2
Chapter 3.3.2 : Variations in Atmospheric CO2 during Glacial/inter-glacial Cycles
Chapter 3.3.3 : Variations in Atmospheric CO2 during the Past 11,000 Years
Chapter 3.5.1 : Atmospheric Measurements and Global CO2 Budgets
Chapter 3.2.2 : Terrestrial Carbon Processes
Chapter 3.2.3 : Ocean Carbon Processes
Chapter 3.5.2 : Interannual Variability in the Rate of Atmospheric CO2 Increase

Non-CO2 greenhouse gases

2.1.2. Are human activities increasing aerosols concentrations?

See IPCC Third Assessment Report of Working Group 1:

Chapter 5.2 : Sources and Production Mechanisms of Atmospheric Aerosols
Chapter 5.5.4 : Linkage to Other Issues and Summary
Chapter 5.1 : Aerosols, their Direct and Indirect Effects
Chapter5.2 : Sources and Production Mechanisms of Atmospheric Aerosols
Chapter 6.7 : The Direct Radiative Forcing of TropA?ospheric Aerosols
Chapter 5.3.2 : Observational Support for Indirect Forcing
Chapter5.4.3 : Modelling the Indirect Effect of Aerosols on Global Climate Forcing
Chapter 6.8 : The Indirect Radiative Forcing of Tropospheric Aerosols

2.1.3. What is the effect of natural factors?

See IPCC Third Assessment Report of Working Group 1:

2.2. How well is climate change understood?

2.2.1. Can the climate be simulated by computer models?

See IPCC Third Assessment Report of Working Group 1:

Chapter 8.3.2 : Why is a Hierarchy of Models Important?
Chapter 8.5.1 : Coupled Climate Models - Means
Chapter 8.6.1 : 20th Century Coupled Model Integrations Including Greenhouse Gases and Sulphate Aerosols
Chapter 8.10.3 : Assessment
Chapter 12.3.2 : Thermal Indicators
Chapter 7.2.1 : Physics of the Water Vapour and Cloud Feedbacks
Chapter 7.5.2 : Cloud Processes and Feedbacks
Chapter 7.6.1 : Surface Fluxes and Transport of Heat and Fresh Water
Chapter 8.4.2 : Flux Adjustment and Energy Transports
Chapter 8.6.3 : The Role of Volcanic and Solar Forcing and Changes in Land Use
Chapter 12.3.2 : Thermal Indicators
Chapter 8.5.5 : Past Climates
Chapter 8.7.1 : El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
Chapter 8.7.5 : The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and the Arctic Oscillation (AO)

2.2.2. What further research is needed?

See IPCC Third Assessment Report of Working Group 1:

2.3. To what extent is climate change due to human activate?

See IPCC Third Assessment Report of Working Group 1:

Contributors: IPCC references come from
IPCC WG I SPM,
other references are selected by
GreenFacts

27-Mar-2008