Several independent lines of evidence show that global warming is happening and caused by human activity, not by natural cycles. When many different types of data support the same hypothesis we call it a consensus of evidence. This lecture introduces some “human fingerprints” of warming we observe in our climate system. Subtitles available in English, Slovenian, Finnish
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Science is not a democracy quote
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Burning fossil fuels produces CO2
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Less heat escaping to space
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More IR at the surface
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Cooling in the upper atmosphere
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Changing structure of the atmosphere
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The sky is falling - Gavin Schmidt "quip"
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