Focus: Recent slowdown in global warming
From the industrial revolution onwards, greenhouse gas emissions resulting from human activities such as the burning of fossil fuel and changes in land use have caused the planet to warm. However, since 1998 — a year of record warmth — the rate of warming has been lower than in the late twentieth century. In this joint web focus, Nature Climate Change and Nature Geoscience present original research and opinion pieces that discuss the causes of the slowdown in surface warming and examine how the science has been communicated by researchers and the media.
Join us for a panel discussion on the science and communication of climate change over the past two decades http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iunO85OkWeA&feature=youtu.be
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