The Winter Olympic Games are being held in Beijing right now. In addition to the Chinese capital, the races are also held in the nearby mountainous areas of Yanqing and Zhangjiakou, which however are usually too dry to have a good snow cover. The chronic lack of snow is the organisers' main headache. One of …
The 26th annual Conference of Parties (COP26) starts this week in Glasgow (UK), organised by the governments of the United Kingdom and Italy. The conference is held one year after the originally scheduled date, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, the meeting goals are nothing short of ambitious. The Conferences of Parties have been …
Ready, steady, go. As soon as it took office, the new administration of President Biden made the US rejoin the Paris climate agreement. This is a nice change of pace compared to the previous administration of President Trump, who decided to quit the agreement. For the occasion, the climate scientist Ed Hawkins produced a special …
In another post, I have summarised the history of climate change in our planet's remote and recent past. What can we say about the future? To answer, we must first understand how difficult it was to understand the role of atmospheric constituents (like the famous greenhouse gas) in the radiative balance of the Earth's atmosphere, …
Continue reading Change of scenario: The climate predictions
It is clear now: the earth's climate is changing and it is causing a rise in average global temperature. It is still difficult to say how and how much global warming will affect our lives. Meanwhile, we can take a look at what has happened in our (more or less) recent past to understand the …
Imagine a dramatic change in climate, able to make our planet look like a huge snowball. Sounds like something out of a Hollywood film, doesn't it? Who knows if anyone has ever thought of something like that... Oh right, unfortunately someone already did it (I’m looking at you, Emmerich). Anyway, the Snowball Earth theory exists …
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