Yale Climate Connections…Coming Series.

Four experts share a ‘few simple, clear, and indisputable statements of scientific fact’ on climate change.

By Gary Yohe, Benjamin Santer, Henry Jacoby, and Richard Richels | Friday, September 11, 2020

“Here are seven key climate messages to follow-up our September 4 posting of debate questions related to climate change. On a weekly basis, we will support each using recently detected extreme climate impacts and established science:

1. The planet is warming and doing so on average at an increasing rate. (September 18)
2. Human activity – in particular combustion of fossil fuels – is the principal cause both of the warming and of the speed at which it is happening. (September 25)
3. Climate extremes–higher temperatures, more droughts, more severe hurricane damages, earlier and more serious wildfires, and historic cold snaps – are getting more severe and are occurring more often (October 2)