when was climate change first used
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History of climate change science In the same general period that scientists first suspected climate change and ice ages, Joseph Fourier, in 1824, found that Earth's atmosphere kept the planet warmer than would be the case in a vacuum, and he made the first calculations of the warming effect.
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(x). Earth's Climatic History Earth's Climatic History. Climatologists have used various techniques and evidence to reconstruct a history of the Earth's past climate. From this data, they have found that during most of the Earth's history global temperatures were probably 8 to 15 degrees Celsius warmer than today. In the last billion years of climatic history, warmer conditions were broken by glacial periods starting at 925, 800, 680, 450, 330, and 2 million years before present.
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A Brief History  of Ice Ages and Warming Before global warming started 18,000 years ago most of the earth was a frozen and arid wasteland. Over half of earth 's surface was covered by glaciers or extreme desert. Forests were rare. Not a very fun place to live.
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Attribution of recent climate change One global climate model 's reconstruction of temperature change during the 20th century as the result of five studied forcing factors and the amount of temperature change attributed to each.
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Page Contents - Causes of Climate Change Find out more about human activities and the causes of climate change in the USGRCP report. Back to top. Causes of climate change millions of years ago. For hundreds of thousands, to millions of years, the Earth’s temperature and weather patterns change naturally over time. But how is the climate defined?
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Arctic Climate Change Greenhouse effect. 1.1 The world’s climate is changing. On average, the temperature on the Earth’s surface has increased by 0.6°C (1°F) over the last two centuries. Most of the warming observed in the past 50 years is attributed to human activities and particularly to the burning of fossil fuels.
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Climate change Climate change was incorporated in the title of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Climate change, used as a noun, became an issue rather than the technical description of changing weather.
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High Middle Ages â 800 AD to 1100 AD About 1000 AD, the world's climate got a few degrees warmer, and this climate change brought many other changes with it. In North America, Tuniit moved south from the Arctic into Greenland, and then they were wiped out by the Inuit, who were also on the move.
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Climate change: How do we know? The planet's average surface temperature has risen about 2.0 degrees Fahrenheit (1.1 degrees Celsius) since the late 19th century, a change driven largely by increased carbon dioxide and other human-made emissions into the atmosphere. 5 Most of the warming occurred in the past 35 years, with 16 of the 17 warmest years on record occurring since 2001.
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- Global Warming FAQs. A NASA computer climate model reinforces the long-standing theory that low solar activity could have changed the atmospheric circulation in the Northern Hemisphere from the 1400s to the 1700s and triggered a Little Ice Age in several regions including North America and Europe.
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10 Conspiracy Theories About Weather Modification Estelle Thurtle. Man-made climate change paved the way for American scientists to come up with the idea of weather modification. They reasoned that if daily human activity was already impacting weather patterns, it was acceptable for them to deliberately change the weather for a variety of purposes. The first meeting about weather modification was held at the end of 1945. At this time, the possibility of using several weather manipulation schemes to America’s advantage during war was discussed. Later, during the Cold War, funds were poured into further research on the topic.
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Global Warming Or Climate Change? Whatâs The Difference? Both charts show that the use of “climate change” has increased. It seems that the real importance of the graphs lies not in which term is “right,” but in the fact that we’re paying more attention to both global warming and climate change since the late 20th century, and even more urgently during the most recent years.
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Earth Sets a Temperature Record for the Third Straight Year Since 1880, NOAA’s records show only one other instance when global temperature records were set three years in a row: in 1939, 1940 and 1941. The Earth has warmed so much in recent decades, however, that 1941 now ranks as only the 37th-warmest year on record. Short Answers to Hard Questions About Climate Change
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Global Temperature Trends From 2500 B.C. To 2040 A.D. Such was the case when our planet moved from the Medieval Warm Period between 900 and 1300 A.D. to the sudden “Little Ice Age,” which peaked in the 17th Century. Since 2,500 B.C., there have been at least 78 major climate changes worldwide, including two major changes in just the past 40 years.
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- Timeline: How the world discovered global warming. U.N. climate talks in Durban, South Africa, from November 28-December 9 are aimed at agreeing new measures to stem rising emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases. 300 BC - Theophrastus, a student of Greek philosopher Aristotle, documents that human activity can affect climate.
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- THERE HAS BEEN A GENERAL WARMING TREND FOR 18,000 YEARS. The period starting about 10,000 years ago is called the Holocene epoch. This is also known as the time of modern man. Even in the Holocene, there have been sudden and significant temperature (and local climate shifts).
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When did global warming start? The natural carbon cycle and the water cycle have produced a greenhouse effect that has kept the planet comfortably warm since life began. <br /><br /><b>Since the start of the Industrial Revolution about 200 years ago</b> man has been burning fossil fuels for industry, transport and the generation of electricity.
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Top Ten Reasons Climate Change is a Hoax The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a series of reports in 2007 that set forth conclusions about the causes and effects of global warming as well as the costs and benefits of solving the problem.
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Climate change on pace to occur 10 times faster than any change recorded in past 65 million years, Stanford scientists say Stanford Report, August 1, 2013. Not only is the planet undergoing one of the largest climate changes in the past 65 million years, Stanford climate scientists Noah Diffenbaugh and Chris Field report that it's on pace to occur at a rate 10 times faster than any change in that period.
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When Weather Changed History When Weather Changed History is a high-definition television series from The Weather Channel. It chronicles major events in history and the effect weather had on them. When Weather Changed History launched on January 6 2008 with the premiere episode focusing on the space shuttle Challenger explosion. The series premiered with record high ratings for its first season of 10 episodes. As a result, a second season consisting of 14 episodes was ordered.
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What Climate Change Caused the Younger Dryas Event? What Climate Change Caused the Younger Dryas Event? Approximately 12,000 years ago, as the Earth neared the end of a long warming cycle that had been ongoing about 10,000 years previous, there was a sudden change in many local Earth climates.
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Timeline: How the world discovered global warming Timeline: How the world discovered global warming. U.N. climate talks in Durban, South Africa, from November 28-December 9 are aimed at agreeing new measures to stem rising emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases. Following is a look at how the world discovered global warming and international steps to try to address it: 300 BC - Theophrastus, a student of Greek philosopher Aristotle, documents that human activity can affect climate.
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- Geologically speaking, we live in a time period of intense climatic change. Since the last 1 million years, our species and our human forebears experienced a dozen or so major glaciations of the northern hemisphere, with the greatest ever occurring around 650,000 years ago.
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- Looking Back In Time. There are many scientists that would answer the question when did global warming start by saying it was around 8000 years ago when people started clearing the land of trees. The constant clearing of the forests is of great concern to environmentalists.
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Whats in a Name? Global Warming vs. Climate Change During the late 1980s one more term entered the lexicon, “global change.” This term encompassed many other kinds of change in addition to climate change. When it was approved in 1989, the U.S. climate research program was embedded as a theme area within the U.S. Global Change Research Program.
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Carbon Dioxide: Earth's Hottest Topic is Just Warming Up At that time, most scientists dismissed the idea that humans could significantly affect average global temperatures. Motivated by this scientific dispute, Keeling began taking measurements of carbon dioxide at Mauna Loa Observatory in 1958.