Annotated Bibliography in Global Warming

Global Warming
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Brown, P. T., & Caldeira, K. (2017). More significant future global warming inferred from Earth's recent energy budget. Nature, 552(7683), 45-50.
This article shows the prediction in the future levels of global warming and the forces pushing the crisis towards the projections. The authors argue that the high radioactive scenarios in the 21st century are bound to increase trigger global warming, threatening that the escalation of the situation projects to climate change. Although humans should protect the environment as their habitat, this article shows how people living in the current century continue indulging in activities triggering the energy resulting in global warming. The authors give an insight into future conditions, revealing how humans will suffer the repercussions of their decisions concerning the interference of the current environmental conditions and their relationship with the future regarding global warming. This article emphasizes that constraining the projects with the current observations will yield lower levels of future global warming, but the range will eventually differ from the real radioactive scenarios witnessed in the century. Hence, the article reveals the standards of global warming at the end of the 21st century to approximately 15% warmer with an addition of 0.5 degrees Celsius from the most extreme radioactive scenarios. According to the authors, the projection state a standard deviation spread of -1.2 degrees Celsius, as reported by the intergovernmental association on climate change. The authors emphasize that achieving stabilization in the global temperatures demands the ultimate reduction in the emission of greenhouse gases, more than the projected calculations. This article is significant to the research on global warming, but persons willing to expound more on issues like sources of the radioactive energy can dwell on more studies at the expense of entirely depending on what the authors had to say about the topic.
Chadburn, S. E., Burke, E. J., Cox, P. M., Friedlingstein, P., Hugelius, G., & Westermann, S. (2017). An observation-based constraint on permafrost loss as a function of global warming. Nature Climate Change, 7(5), 340-344.
The nature of the land surface shows permafrost is significant to the earth since it covers approximately 15 million km2 of the surface. However, this article states that permafrost is one of the most sensitive components of the planet to global warming. The authors point out that a consistent continuity in the rate of warming will eventually wear the element out, affecting the earth's system adversely. According to the article, losing permafrost from the earth's surface would drastically change the aspects like hydrology and biogeochemical cycling in high-latitude areas, iterating to climate change. While the impact can affect all areas on the surface of the earth, the authors argue that the most impacted places are high latitudinal areas due to the upper and immediate levels of thawing in the regions. The authors explain that the current climatic conditions predict warming of the high latitude soils, yielding thawing in the affected areas in the future, but i...