Who else has done extensive research in climate change?

Question

I was curious becasue I have been doing some research lately and I was wondering what other peoples findings were?

Answer 1

I enjoy studying the earth and especial the atmosphere. I have an EPA license, could not understand the chemistry so I did my own research and still did not make sense. then the government came up with a new chemical reaction in the atmosphere and found the new chemicals. these chemicals were then found on the South Pole, just as I had predicted. That is why I want us to clean up the atmosphere and release new ozone. I call the machines Atmospheric Cleanup Machines and you can see them at CoolingEarth.org.

Have fun

Answer 2

"the climate is like a wild beast, and we're poking it with sticks"

--climatologist Wally Broecker

although i have not done extensive research. I'm taking an AP environmental science class. also, i read the book Under A Green Sky, written by Peter D. Ward (PHD in paleontology and a professor of earth sciences)it was extremely interesting (although a bit of a slow read). the focus was essentially climate changes and rapid global warming, and how they caused mass extinctions of the past. however, he connected that by studying this, we can see what the future holds. so i would say i know more than the average person about climate change, and what will happen in the future.

basically, climate change and global warming are natural processes. it was what killed off the dinosaurs (not an asteroid. Impact was only the cause for ONE extinction). it is a complicated and extensive process, but a picture is hazy, vomit green skies. oceans still with a 100 ft thick deep layer of purple "scummy" bacteria.

although global warming is natural, the human impact is making the course to an uninhabitable planet come awfully close.

i would suggest reading the book for more research too =]

^^that was a really general answer, but like a lot of things in the science field, it's complicated =)

Answer 3

Don't ask Al Gore. He hasn't done any scientific research.

Answer 4

It depends on what you mean by "extensive research." I haven't done a bit of original research on the topic of climate change, since I'm not a climate scientist. I have read fairly extensively on the subject, and I'm familiar with current scientific opinion on it. I'd put myself down as an interested layman.

My findings are much the same as most of the rest of the world's: the climate is changing, and is most likely changing as a result of human activities.

Answer 5

well the earth is warming faster then before,disappearing glaciers, storms are much worse..temps. are up an down very abnormal like where l live..increase of storms and natural disasters such as forest fires and fatal heat waves.Unusual events are being reported across the World. Bubbles trapped in ice cores.

all i know right now

Answer 6

Here's a site that is really informative.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwar...

Answer 7

Lots of reading on the subject.

Hey, J.S., that study you site was totally debunked. It could not be duplicated by independent researchers.

Answer 8

Most findings are going to be pretty homogeneous, unless you're talking to a skeptic.

The earth is warming up, but whether this is completely natural or is partially due to anthropogenic forcing factors remains to be seen.

Answer 9

I've found that the progression in scientific understanding on global warming is well summarized in detail on this site:

http://www.aip.org/history/climate/co2.h...

After many decades of supporting research, here is what the recent balance looks like in terms of scientific evidence:

http://norvig.com/oreskes.html

The consensus was quantified in a Science study by Prof. Naomi Oreskes (Dec. 2004) in which she surveyed 928 scientific journal articles that matched the search [global climate change] at the ISI Web of Science. Of these, according to Oreskes, 75% agreed with the consensus view (either implicitly or explicitly), 25% took no stand one way or the other, and none rejected the consensus.

Counting only peer-reviewed papers published in reputable journals is important because they are cross-checked by scientist peers who are also staking their professional reputations on the validity of the paper, its evidence, and its conclusions.

Despite the evidence, some people still claim that the sun is responsible for current warming, but that does not appear to be the case:

http://journals.royalsociety.org/content...

"There are many interesting palaeoclimate studies that suggest that solar variability had an influence on pre-industrial climate. There are also some detection–attribution studies using global climate models that suggest there was a detectable influence of solar variability in the first half of the twentieth century and that the solar radiative forcing variations were amplified by some mechanism that is, as yet, unknown. However, these findings are not relevant to any debates about modern climate change. Our results show that the observed rapid rise in global mean temperatures seen after 1985 cannot be ascribed to solar variability, whichever of the mechanisms is invoked and no matter how much the solar variation is amplified."

http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/...

"blaming the sun for recent global warming is no science-backed position anymore – it is deliberate disinformation. "

Scientists would love to find evidence that we are off the hook, but there is no alternate theory that has any widespread support.  If you've found something that we've overlooked, please provide links to your sources!

Answer 10

I have been researching Climate change for many years and you would be surprised.