A Climate for Denial

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Why is it that despite overwhelming evidence and fundamental science, some people still don't accept that climate change is real and that human activity is contributing to it?
Is it because the science is not being understood? Is it because it is difficult to accept that humans are capable of changing the climate? Is there a link between climate change scepticism and ideology? Is there a link between the belief in the science and belief in God?
If you know anyone who challenges the science of climate change — or completely denies it's happening at all — then this book is for you, and for them. Don't worry, your friend is human after all, and such behaviour can be explained. A Climate for Denial gives a summary of the reasons your friend is a sceptic.

Environmental Protection Global Warming & Climate Change Nature Science

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Оригинална публикация: 2017
Година на публикуване: 2017

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Daria Zaytsevaцитирапреди 3 години
greenhouse gases let some radiation to pass through and act as a shield for others. By doing this, they allow the sun’s radiation to pass through to our planet, but the longer wavelength radiation coming for Earth simply doesn’t get sent back to the cosmos and instead gets trapped, thereby heating our planet
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Daria Zaytsevaцитирапреди 3 години
The overwhelming conclusion is that the greenhouse gases humans have been emitting into the atmosphere since the industrial revolution are contributing to what is known as the greenhouse gas effect and global warming. And already, we get into a problem with terminology. The term ‘global warming’ creates a perception that the globe is continuously and ‘linearly’6 warming. That’s why people say to me:
‘if there’s global warming taking place, how come it’s so cold today?’
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Daria Zaytsevaцитирапреди 3 години
Earth receives energy from the sun in the form of ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared radiation. Of the total amount of solar energy available at the top of the atmosphere, some is reflected to space by the atmosphere and clouds and some absorbed by the atmosphere and clouds. Most of the rest is absorbed at the surface of the Earth. And this has been happening from the beginning of time. But here’s the difference greenhouse gases make. Because it is warm, the Earth’s surface radiates at wavelengths much longer than the wavelengths that were absorbed. The long-wavelength infrared heat that is trying to escape to space is more absorbent by greenhouse gases and is reflected back towards Earth and trapped by the atmosphere, thereby warming it.
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