Monthly Archives: July 2007

What affects Earth’s climate?

When I arrived at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, in the 1970s, I started hearing the debate about whether the global climate was getting warmer or cooler. From the “warming” graph in the previous blog, … Continue reading

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It is getting warmer!

Figure 1 shows how Earth’s average temperature has changed over time from two research groups – one the National Climate Data Center in the United States, and the second from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia … Continue reading

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