Open AccessHuman contribution to climate change remains questionable
Author(s) -
Singer S. Fred
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/99eo00132
Subject(s) - climate change , climate science , subject (documents) , principal (computer security) , focus (optics) , environmental ethics , political science , ecology , computer science , biology , philosophy , physics , library science , optics , operating system
The principal focus of climate science is certainly atmospheric science and meteorology, but the subject involves many other areas of the Earth sciences as well as different disciplines, such as physics, chemistry and even biology. This complexity makes climate science both fascinating and controversial. It also undergoes rapid change as new facts and analyses emerge. Yet public interest in the possibility that human activities can change climate has become so intense that far‐reaching policies are instituted even before final judgments are possible.