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The Ordnance Survey, the Met Office, the Land Registry and other public bodies could be merged and partly-privatised under plans being considered by ministers, I can reveal.

Humans now steer climate bus « Know

According to Kerry Cook, professor of climate systems science, it isn’t an either/or proposition. Climate variations can have many different causes, which are known as “climate forcing factors.” The climate forcings for ice ages and warmer periods are well-known variations in Earth’s orbital parameters (the eccentricity of its orbit around the sun, the tilt of its axis of rotation, and the season during which Earth is closest to the sun). These factors can be accurately calculated for any past or future time, and they vary on time scales ranging from 23,000 years to 400,000 years. The amount and distribution of solar radiation that reaches Earth changes with the orbital parameters, causing climate variations on these same time scales (tens of thousands of years).
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The game has changed dramatically in recent decades. There is no lag between rising temperatures and rising CO2. Both have spiked dramatically in the past 50 years. The rate of change and the lack of a lag are exactly what climate scientists theorize should happen if CO2 takes over as the main climate forcing.

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There is a delay of several decades between forcing and final response.

Marshall Islands' Wants to Set Pace in Climate Change Declarations

the country, according to U.N. statistics, emits 99 metric tons of carbon dioxide each year,