Topic: Global Climate Change
In 2005, scientists from the United Kingdom camped out in northern Africa to study the dustiest place on Earth.
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Bruce Wielicki told Earth & Sky, “People may look around and say, this hasn’t changed so much. This has got to be right, what I see in my backyard. It takes a longer time, unfortunately, for a warming trend to come out of the signal. So unless they’re willing to trust the science community to tell them what the bigger picture is, if they’re waiting for their own backyard to show it, unfortunately they’re not going to see it … “
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Climate and land use are intimately linked
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Climate and land use are intimately linked
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Earth & Sky talked to Scott Doney at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution about predictions of future climate change.
He said, “It’s a very tricky business because as climate changes – and we’ve already seen this – people will change their behavior.” …
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In 2005, a team of seven scientists from the U.K. braved dust storms and extreme heat to collect data samples from the Bodele depression in the African country of Chad.
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