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Article: GLOBAL WARMING AND THE NEXT ICE AGE
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- Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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Earth's climate is a complex dynamical system that is responding to an array of forcings, which include anthropogenic carbon dioxide and aerosols and solar variability. Aeorsol and solar forcings are imperfectly constrained and only monitored by observational systems with limited sensitivity and coverage. The Second International Conference on Global Warming and the Next Ice Age (GWNIA), like its predecessor in 2001 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, aimed to provide a venue for detailed discussions of how global climate responses to natural and anthropogenic forcings besides long-lived greenhouse gases (GHGs; Chylek et al. 2007a). Conference delegates discussed the shortcomings of current models, ...