How Global Warming Stacks Up

  • Released Tuesday, July 21, 2015
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Skeptics of manmade climate change offer various natural causes to explain why the Earth has warmed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880. But can these account for the planet’s rising temperature? Watch to see how much different factors, both natural and industrial, contribute to global warming, based on findings from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

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Observed Data

Orbital Contribution

Solar Contribution

Volcanic Contribution

Natural Sources Contribution, All Curves Together

Land Use Contribution

Ozone Contribution

Anthropogenic Aerosols Contribution

Greenhouse Gases Contribution

Human Sources Contribution - All Curves Together

All Forcings, Combined

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Data provided by NASA GISS and IPCC

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