The link between aerosols and climate change
How do atmospheric aerosols modify the climate?Aerosols linked to human activities are responsible for a cooling of the...
The rise in the earth’s temperature
Are temperatures rising in all regions of the world?No, not quite. It depends in part on the time...
The definition of a climate observation system
What are essential climate variables? The international GCOS program (the Global Climate Observing System) was set up in...
The climate differs according to your geographical location
What explains the difference in climate from one part of the planet to another?One essential reason: because the...
Explaining the Earth’s radiation balance
The laws of conservation of mass and energy apply to planet Earth as they do to any physical...
Reasons for climate variation
What causes climate to vary? Solar radiation is distributed unevenly across the Earth’s surface. Low latitudes (around the...
The cohabitation of business and climate change
How do climate scenarios take into account our societies’ economic options? What use are socio-economic scenarios for climate...
Climate forecasts for the year 2100
The future climate will certainly not be a simple extrapolation of current climatic variations. The main reason for...
Is the Gulf Stream a danger to Europe?
The Gulf Stream has acquired a media reputation ever since the American naval officer Matthew Fontaine Maury, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Fontaine_Maury, compared...
The links between the Earth and the different planets
The exploration of the solar system and the discovery of exoplanets now allow a comparative study between the...
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