Climate change

El Niño /ɛl ˈniːnjoʊ/ (Spanish pronunciation: [el ˈniɲo]) is the warm phase of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (commonly called ENSO) and is associated with a band of warm ocean water that develops in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific (between approximately the International Date Line and 120°W), including off the Pacific coast of South America.

Global warming and climate change are terms for the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects.

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Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is a future greenhouse gas mitigation technology which produces negative carbon dioxide emissions by combining bioenergy (energy from biomass) use with geologic carbon capture and storage.

This article has not been updated to include results of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report.

Thermohaline circulation (THC) is a part of the large-scale ocean circulation that is driven by global density gradients created by surface heat and freshwater fluxes.

Envisat ("Environmental Satellite") is a large inactive Earth-observing satellite which is still in orbit.

The International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) was founded in 1928.

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is an important trace gas in Earth's atmosphere currently constituting about 0.

The Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), alternatively "Eocene thermal maximum 1" (ETM1), and formerly known as the "Initial Eocene" or "Late Paleocene Thermal Maximum" was a time period with more than 8 °C warmer global average temperature than today.

The carbon cycle is the biogeochemical cycle by which carbon is exchanged among the biosphere, pedosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of the Earth.

Nuclear winter (also known as atomic winter) is a hypothesized global climatic effect most often considered a potential threat following a countervalue (or city-targeted), nuclear war, as a result of city and natural wildfire firestorms.

The greenhouse effect is the process by which radiation from a planet's atmosphere warms the planet's surface to a temperature above what it would be without its atmosphere.

The Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency was an Australian Government department.

Deglaciation, describes the transition from full glacial conditions during ice ages, to warm interglacials, characterized by global warming and sea level rise due to change in continental ice volume (IPCC AR5).

Sea level rise has been estimated to be on average between +2.

Polar amplification is the phenomenon that any change in the net radiation balance (for example greenhouse intensification) tends to produce a larger change in temperature near the poles than the planetary average.

The effects of global warming include effects on human health.

Before the Flood is a 2016 documentary film about climate change directed by Fisher Stevens.

The Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty which extends the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits State Parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the premise that (a) global warming exists and (b) human-made CO2 emissions have caused it.

An Inconvenient Truth 2 is a 3-episode TV series that was first transmitted on the Community Channel in the UK on December 7, 14 and 21, 2011.

Anthony Leiserowitz is the Director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University.

InsideClimate News is a "non-profit, non-partisan news organization that covers clean energy, carbon energy, nuclear energy and environmental science.

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How Global Warming Works is a website developed by Michael Ranney, a professor of cognitive psychology at the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California, United States.

Its Tomorrow is an upcoming Indian film about Climate Change written by Dr.

Carbon Solutions Global (CSG) is an environmental consulting company with its headquarters in the UK and operating in 5 countries.

Climate security describes serious threats to the security and prosperity of countries, due to climate warming, and climate actions to adapt and mitigate impacts.

The cold blob in the North Atlantic describes a cold temperature anomaly of ocean surface waters, affecting the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) which is part of the thermohaline circulation, possibly related to Greenland ice melt from global warming.

The Compact of Mayors is a global coalition of city leaders addressing climate change by pledging to cut greenhouse gas emissions and prepare for the future impacts of climate change.

Driving the Future: Combating Climate Change with Cleaner, Smarter Cars is the first book by former Environmental Protection Agency senior director Margo T.

Arctic sea ice decline is the sea ice loss observed in recent decades in the Arctic Ocean.

ECOWEEK Εβδομάδα Οικολογίας (Greek) or אקוויק (Hebrew) is a private non-profit, non-governmental international organization aiming towards the empowerment, networking, education and training of young professionals - architects, designers, engineers, landscape architects - towards sustainable urban and public interventions and facilitation of action through fieldwork, workshops, education and training and through cooperation with local authorities, organizations and leaders.

Fossil fuel divestment or fossil fuel divestment/investment is the removal of investment assets including stocks, bonds, and investment funds from companies involved in extracting fossil fuels, in an attempt to reduce climate change by tackling its causes.

A runaway greenhouse effect is a process in which a net positive feedback between surface temperature and atmospheric opacity increases the strength of the greenhouse effect on a planet until its oceans boil away.

Attribution of recent climate change is the effort to scientifically ascertain mechanisms responsible for recent climate changes on Earth, commonly known as 'global warming'.

The main climate state change is between periodical glacial and interglacial cycles in Earth history, studied from climate proxies.

The Academy of Climate Change Education and Research (ACCER) is an institution established by Kerala Agricultural University in 2010 to study about climate change under the faculty of agriculture.

The R20 - Regions of Climate Action (R20) is a nonprofit environmental organization founded in November 2010, by former Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, with the support of the United Nations.

Years of Living Dangerously is an American documentary television series focusing on global warming.

An abrupt climate change occurs when the climate system is forced to transition to a new climate state at a rate that is determined by the climate system energy-balance, and which is more rapid than the rate of change of the external forcing.

Climate Central is a nonprofit news organization that analyzes and reports on climate science.

Dot Earth is an award-winning environmental blog and associated media by science writer Andrew Revkin for the New York Times.

Runaway climate change or runaway global warming is hypothesized to follow a tipping point in the climate system, after accumulated climate change initiates a reinforcing positive feedback.

The Sahara Forest Project is a solution to provide fresh water, food, renewable energy and green jobs in hot, arid regions as well as re-vegetating areas of uninhabited desert, in a profitable way.

Climate change and agriculture are interrelated processes, both of which take place on a global scale.