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17 de may. de 2023 · Addressing climate change will require many solutions —there's no magic bullet. Yet nearly all of these solutions exist today. They range from worldwide changes to where we source our...
- Christina Nunez
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7 de ago. de 2023 · There are many ways to prevent global warming from becoming worse. Many nations have put laws into place to fight climate change -- here’s what you can do.
- Choose a utility company that generates at least half its power from wind or solar and has been certified by Green-e Energy, an organization that v...
- “Building heating and cooling are among the biggest uses of energy,” Haq says. Indeed, heating and air-conditioning account for almost half of home...
- Since they were first implemented nationally in 1987, efficiency standards for dozens of appliances and products have kept 2.3 billion tons of carb...
- Approximately 10 percent of U.S. energy use goes into growing, processing, packaging, and shipping food—about 40 percent of which just winds up in...
- Gas-smart cars, such as hybrids and fully electric vehicles, save fuel and money. And once all cars and light trucks meet 2025’s clean car standard...
- Choosing to live in walkable smart-growth cities and towns with quality public transportation leads to less driving, less money spent on fuel, and...
- You can offset the carbon you produce by purchasing carbon offsets, which represent clean power that you can add to the nation’s energy grid in pla...
The world is already 1.2°C warmer than pre-industrial times and every fraction of a degree counts. Research shows that with 2°C of global warming we will have more intense droughts and more devastating floods, more wildfires and more storms.
18 de may. de 2024 · Modern global warming is the result of an increase in magnitude of the so-called greenhouse effect, a warming of Earth’s surface and lower atmosphere caused by the presence of water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxides, and other greenhouse gases.
- Human activity affects global surface temperatures by changing Earth’s radiative balance—the “give and take” between what comes in during the day a...
- Global warming, the phenomenon of increasing average air temperatures near Earth’s surface over the past one to two centuries, happens mostly in th...
- Continued global warming is expected to impact everything from energy use to water availability to crop productivity throughout the world. Poor cou...
- Polar bears live in the Arctic, where they use the region’s ice floes as they hunt seals and other marine mammals. Temperature increases related to...
Soluciones Calentamiento Global. Fotografía de Paul Nicklen. Este artículo se publicó originalmente el 5 de enero de 2016 y ha sido actualizado el 3 de junio de 2022.
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David Hecker. Coal fired power stations will need to be limited to keep temperatures down. The dangers of climate change have been well reported for years. But what's had less attention is how the...
IPCC Climate Report 2022. The Working Group III report provides an updated global assessment of climate change mitigation progress and pledges, and examines the sources of global emissions.
