SCC Volume 2.3. Present day treatises dealing with weather and climate often use seemingly physical quantities, while they are in fact averages of such. Inserting these into formulas is physically not permitted. It leads to an assumption of the magnitude…
SCC Volume 2.3. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) classifies the human influence on ourclimate as extremely likely to be the main reason of global warming over the last decades. Particularly anthropogenic emissions of carbon compounds, with carbon dioxide…
SCC Volume 2.3. The observed present rate of uplift in Scandinavia increases from zero on the western coast of Norway to ~1 cm/yr in the Baltic Sea area. This domelike uplift is generally assumed to be the result of glacial…
SCC Volume 2.3. Transition from interglacial (Eem) to glaciation (Weichsel), to the current interglacial (warm) period, Holocene, including changing sea-levels: transgressions and regressions. Abstract Part 2 reviews some of the pertinent knowledge about ancient climate variations, from ~ 70 Ma…
SCC Volume 2.3. The source of atmospheric CO2 variations is poorly understood. At Mauna Loa Hawaii, atmospheric CO2 has been recorded from 1959. This is a short period for a reliable variability signature identification. From the 19th century, atmospheric CO2…
SCC Volume 2.3. The question is: What fraction of the observed increase in atmospheric CO2 since 1750 is due to the burning of fossil fuels? Is it close to 1.0 as the IPCC and the climate policy makers would have…
SCC Volume 2.3. Unlike elsewhere on the globe, temperature in the tropics has increased systematically. From observed tropical temperature, numerical simulations have reproduced the observed evolution of atmospheric CO2, including its annual cycle. Much the same has followed empirically from…
With this edition Science of Climate Change finishes its second volume. We managed only three
issues in this volume, because of a long halt in the editorial work. However, we are proud of
finishing in the month prescribed on the title, and we express the hope that we can in the future
can keep the schedule and publish quarterly issues.