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Nuclear power plants in Cattenom, France.
Stefan Kühn
The future of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere proves difficult to anticipate because of its strong dependence on human activities and the unpredictability of such activities. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an organization established by the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organization in 1988, developed 40 scenarios about future concentrations of greenhouse gases.
These scenarios fall into four different narrative storylines about possible demographic, social, economic, technological, and environmental circumstances that will drive greenhouse gas emissions.
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Podcast: TED Talks series - Rob Hopkins:...
SUMMARY 16:40 minutes TED Talks series, FILMED JUL 2009 • POSTED NOV 2009& More »
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Simulation: Climate Change: A simulation with...
Video length: 18:01 min and 3:45 min. Selected for the CLEAN Collection. The activity description was developed by CLEAN reviewers. This webpage contains two videos that show... More »
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Video: TED Talks series - Steven Cowley:...
SUMMARY 9:55 minutes TED Talks series, FILMED JUL 2009 • POSTED DEC 2009 • More »
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Podcast: TED Talks series - T. Boone Pickens:...
SUMMARY 19:43 minutes TED Talks series, FILMED MAR 2012 • POSTED MAR 2012& More »
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IPCC Emission Scenarios
Climate forecasting requires insight into the predictability of forcing factors that influence Earth’s climate. External forcing factors run the gamut in terms of... More »
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Simulation: California Pollution Plumes - LLNL
3D, 5.2 MB This 3D simulation shows the plumes from Los Angeles and San Francisco for the first week in 2006. To demonstrate how air circulation transport fossil fuels... More »
Simulation - C-Learn: the International Climate Change...
Last Updated on 2013-05-13 at 20:08
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Selected for the CLEAN Collection. Activity description by CLEAN reviewers.
C-Learn is a simplified version of the C-ROADS simulator. Its primary purpose is to... More »
Visualization of the global distribution of greenhouse...
Last Updated on 2012-08-22 at 15:12
Carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) are the two most important anthropogenic greenhouse gases and contribute to global warming. Despite their relevance, there are large... More »
Podcast: TED Talks series - David Keith's Unusual...
Last Updated on 2012-08-10 at 17:32
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15:56 minutes
TED Talks series, FILMED SEP 2007 • POSTED NOV 2007 • More »
Podcast: TED Talks series - Steven Cowley: Fusion is...
Last Updated on 2012-08-10 at 17:31
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9:55 minutes
TED Talks series, FILMED JUL 2009 • POSTED DEC 2009 • TEDGlobal 2009
Physicist St More »
Video: TED Talks series - Steven Cowley: Fusion is...
Last Updated on 2012-08-10 at 17:31
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9:55 minutes
TED Talks series, FILMED JUL 2009 • POSTED DEC 2009 • More »
Video: TED Talks series - David Keith's Unusual...
Last Updated on 2012-08-10 at 17:31
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15:56 minutes
TED Talks series, FILMED SEP 2007 • POSTED NOV 2007 • TEDSalon 2007 Hot Science
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