We live in an era of climate change. There is no longer any doubt about that. The instability of the climate system is obvious: an unprecedentedly hot summer in Europe and Asia; catastrophic autumn hurricanes in the tropics; and unheard-of frosts that lock up Europe.
But what is the cause of climate change?
People begin to blame themselves for global warming caused by the greenhouse effect. Indeed, the scale of human impact on the environment becomes comparable to nature.
But what if humans, as just temporary inhabitants of the planet, aren’t that guilty? The mechanism of climate fluctuations is practically unknown to us—we can only speculate about why in the geological past there were sharp transitions from warmth to cold and vice versa. And, all the more, we cannot predict whether a new ice age will come or whether we will face a greenhouse world.
So what will happen the day after tomorrow?
Contents:
A. Volkov Waiting for the weather by the sea
A. Volkov Will there be no after tomorrow in Kiribati?
A. Volkov Living by the rules of warming
A. Grudinkin Arctic without blank spots
A. Golyadin Permafrost gives way
A. Zhuravlev Unhappy forecast
A. Yablokov The fates of Central Asian glaciers
A. Bukhbinder The fate of methane
A. Volkov Methane sea, methane sky
A. Bukhbinder The Sun is the cause of global warming
A. Volkov Ice, heat, and Milankovitch numbers
B. Berry Living by the rules of cooling
S. Ilyin A snowball Earth