What is the most reliable evidence for climate change?
What is the most reliable evidence for climate change?
The charts that follow show how the oceans are changing and what they’re telling us as a thermometer of global warming. Scientists say the accumulation of heat in the oceans is the strongest evidence of how fast Earth is warming due to heat-trapping gases released by the burning of fossil fuels.
Can animals and plants adapt to global warming?
As the Earth heats up, animals and plants are not necessarily helpless. They can move to cooler climes; they can stay put and adapt as individuals to their warmer environment, and they can even adapt as a species, by evolving. (Related: “Rain Forest Plants Race to Outrun Global Warming.”)
Why do climate models differ?
Climate models can disagree on many results and projections due to natural variability, differences in forcing, and differences in feedbacks.
What are some negative effects of climate change?
Humans and wild animals face new challenges for survival because of climate change. More frequent and intense drought, storms, heat waves, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and warming oceans can directly harm animals, destroy the places they live, and wreak havoc on people’s livelihoods and communities.
Can plants adapt to global warming?
Plants adapt to environmental stress by altering their metabolism, flowering, growth, and reproduction; and by migrating toward areas with more favorable climatic conditions. It is difficult to predict the impact of climate change on individual species, which have different capacities to adapt or migrate.
What animals can survive climate change?
Researchers from McGill University, Canada, have observed that the threespine stickleback fish (Gasterosteus aculeatus) can adapt to climatic changes fast. Their study is likely to help scientists predict which animals are likely to survive climate change.
Who created climate models?
Two scientists from the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Drs. Syukuro Manabe and Kirk Bryan, published the model results in 1969. By the 1970s, general circulation models emerged as a central tool in climate research.
