Anthropogenic climate change
Friday, November 14th, 2008There was an excellent opinion in the November 2008 issue of Physics Today entitled “A broader view of the role of humans in the climate system” by Roger Pielke Sr., warning scientists and policy makers to pay heed to other anthropogenic sources of climate change besides carbon emissions.
There is no doubt among the scientific community that climate change is real, that its origin is anthropogenic, and that greenhouse gases play a large role. However we should recognize that our planet obeys complex weather dynamics with impactful second order effects that should be considered: the water cycle, the nitrogen cycle and region specific drivers of weather.