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Warm Up – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet The greenhouse effect is a naturally occurring physical process that warms the Earth's surface with energy from the atmosphere Without the effect, Earth's average surface temperature would be well below freezing
Direct Observations Confirm That Humans Are Throwing Earths Energy . . . On Earth, natural and human-caused processes affect the amount of energy received as well as emitted back to space This study filters out variations in Earth’s energy budget due to feedback processes, revealing the energy changes caused by aerosols and greenhouse gas emissions
Carbon – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet In 1856, Eunice Foote discovered that carbon dioxide (CO₂) and water vapor in Earth's atmosphere trap escaping infrared (heat) radiation, acting like a blanket to keep the surface layers warm (the greenhouse effect)
NASA Announces Summer 2023 Hottest on Record Scientific observations and analyses made over decades by NASA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and other international institutions have shown this warming has been driven primarily by human-caused greenhouse gas emissions
Our World, Other Worlds – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet A Venus is made of denser rock than Earth B Earth is more geologically active than Venus C Ice caps and oceans on Earth absorb energy from the atmosphere D Venus has a stronger greenhouse effect than Earth
A world of extremes – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet They also include the effects of changes in greenhouse gas levels, the heat output of the sun and volcanic explosions here on Earth Today’s climate models can resolve climate and weather effects down to a scale of 35 km (22 miles) — enough to be able to identify category 3 hurricanes
Monster of climate research - Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet Over the past decade, AIRS and AMSU-A have improved our understanding of Earth's global water and energy cycles, climate change and trends and how Earth's climate system is responding to increased greenhouse gases
Can Climate Affect Earthquakes, Or Are the Connections Shaky? What About Droughts? We know seasonal effects can cause changes on faults, but what about less periodic climate phenomena, like a long-term drought? Might they cause changes too? As it turns out, changes in stress loads on Earth’s crust from periods of drought can, in fact, be significant
Ocean Warming - Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet It has absorbed 90% of the warming that has occurred in recent decades due to increasing greenhouse gases, and the top few meters of the ocean store as much heat as Earth's entire atmosphere
Examining the global impacts of the 2015 El Niño Approximately 15 years of observations by NASA's fleet of Earth-observing satellites show how El Niños affect multiple interconnected Earth systems One big question about the current El Niño is whether it will bring significant rainfall to drought-plagued California