climate
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0Where does the 1.5 degree target come from, and why that number?1.5 degrees is treated as a line that must not be crossed, but a tenth of a degree either side cannot be a physical boundary. Nothing in the climate changes discontinuously at exactly that point. How was it arrived at,…3 OpenEnvironmental Science Hub · 8h ago
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0What is the actual statistical difference between weather and climate?"Climate is average weather" is the line everyone uses, but averages over what, and why thirty years specifically? It sounds like a convention rather than a threshold with meaning. Is there a real statistical reason…3 OpenEnvironmental Science Hub · 8h ago
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0How can CO₂ warm the planet when it is only 0.04% of the atmosphere?This is the objection I keep meeting and I cannot answer it properly. Carbon dioxide is a few hundred parts per million, while nitrogen and oxygen make up almost all of the air. Why does the trace gas control the…3 OpenEnvironmental Science Hub · 8h ago