The climate-changing greenhouse effect exists and has been directly measured in the United States, a new study reports. The results confirm what scientists had already proved through models and ...

Think of a greenhouse. It’s a structure with glass walls that lets light in and traps heat, all for the benefit of the plants inside. As for how it works, that’s elementary! It’s all down to the ...

The Earth’s average global temperature is 1.2 degrees Celsius hotter (around 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) than in preindustrial times, causing shifts in weather patterns and more frequent and severe ...

As a retired chemist, Raleigh Jenkins should know that carbon dioxide, in its gaseous state, does not trap infrared heat, which makes the greenhouse effect a physical impossibility. Of the three ...

Our atmosphere is made up of a mix of gases that sustain life by absorbing some solar radiation to heat the planet, allow livings things to breathe, and by transporting water. Nitrogen (78%) and ...

When did we first realize that we had the potential to warm our planet’s climate? You could go all the way back to 1827, when French mathematician Joseph Fourier calculated that the atmosphere, ...

In 1827, French scientist Jean-Baptiste Fourier noticed the similarity between the effect of glass in a greenhouse retaining heat from sunlight in the greenhouse and the similar effect that the ...

I won't spend time highlighting any particular zombie theory about the Sun or cosmic rays. It is more useful to "cut to the chase" on why the Sun doesn't explain climate warming. The graphic below ...

Laura Revell receives funding from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, the Deep South National Science Challenge and the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden fund. University of ...