What's causing global warming?
Channel: Carbon Brief
Date: 2017-12-14

The science on the human contribution to modern warming is quite clear. Humans emissions and activities have caused around 100% of the warming observed since 1950. Carbon Brief examines how each of the major factors affecting the Earth’s climate would influence temperatures in isolation – and how their combined effects almost perfectly predict long-term changes in the global temperature.

Animation by Rosamund Pearce and graph by Zeke Hausfather for Carbon Brief. Voiceover by Jocelyn Timperley.

Read more: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-why-scientists-think-100-of-global-warming-is-due-to-humans

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Music credit: Into Infinity artists Unrecognisable Now, Naohito Uchiyama, Languis (CC BY-NC 3.0 US).