Take a short walk through global temperature warming made crystal clear by Sir David Attenborough interviewing a climate scientist addressing the topic, “Do humans have a central role in causing climate change and global warming?” (3 min)
Watch a video addressing common objections by climate change deniers. Referring to specific scientific reports, the video illustrates how climate change and global warming work – and their impacts on the earth (10 min).
Watch a briefing on how climate change works – what causes it, how it shows up in the number and severity of climate-related events, what impacts will change civilization, and (very briefly) what you can do about it (4 min).
1. Global warming is unequivocal and primarily human-induced. Global temperature has increased over the past 50 years. This observed increase is due primarily to human-induced emissions of heat-trapping gases. (p. 13)
It can be daunting to wrap one’s mind around the concept of global climate change. It’s easy to see the threats posed by melting glaciers and endangered polar bears, but it’s harder to understand what that means to us here in the Rogue Valley, or what we can or should do about it.
If global warming continues unabated, summer temperatures in the Rogue River Valley could rise up to 15 degrees by 2080, making the weather in the southern Oregon valley similar to Sacramento’s, Oregon researchers said in a report released today.